UPnP/Virtual Server curse

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On my old D-Link router whenever I enabled UPnP or set up a virtual server in order to get something like bittorrent working properly, the router would die about 10 minutes later and would continue doing so until I removed the VS and disabled UPnP.

I just thought it was because I just managed to pick out a bad router.

However, I now have a Belkin and it does exactly the same thing, so I'm guessing it's actually something i'm doing wrong...

I'm so confused, help me please!
 
...yes. That's what causes the problem.

I forward the ports, then the router continually resets itself every 10 minutes until I eventually get annoyed and remove the rule I just set up for it.
 
I have no idea for the belkin one.

The D-Link one always was, and the problem is identical on the D-Link and the Belkin :/
 
Both :p

One PC is connected with a wire, the other Wireless.

I'm on the wireless one, the wired one isn't turned on at the moment.
 
Why would my operating system cause routers to reset themselves when I change just the UPnP/VS settings? :confused:

If it makes any difference, the old D-Link I had was also in a different house, with 8 machines, all connected via wireless and would be stable for weeks and weeks unless I tried to enable UPnP or set up a VS for port forwarding at which point it would then continually crash until I undid those changes.

The Belkin is now doing the same, I can't understand it :/
 
ISP is Pipex, 1Mb (yay for parents who are too confused to upgrade, i hate living back at home) using uTorrent and traffic is encrypted.

I'm going out now, so won't be able to reply for a few hours.
 
global max 750
per torrent 100
upload 8


edit - MSN has since stopped working and is informing me that my 'DNS is unable to resolve IP addresses'

...well that's helpful. Guess that's why only OcUK, Facebook and IRC are working too.
 
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Well that's just what uTorrent has set as default...

I'm now however, thoroughly confused as to this DNS issue and why hardly anything works at all, despite rebooting both the PC and the router :S
 
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