Bittorrent no incoming connections?

[grizzlyadamz]

Well, for the last three or four torrents I've tried to download, there were between 39 and 500 possible seeders, (in the parenthesis), but I cannot seem to get any seeds nor activity. I can, however, upload and download torrent's I've already used; the one torrent that is downloading has slowed to a crawl though. It has dropped to between .1 and 2kb/s, down from 138+, and the number of seeders has remained constant. This is when I started getting red and orange symbols next to my total download speed, and it is now sitting on the orange 'no incoming connections'. It's been like this for a few days now, and it is POSSIBLE that the router was changed, but I didn't notice anyone messing with it. I don't want to bring this up with the parents however, as the techie that maintains the local network, (the daddy), has an agenda about p2p sharing, (my sister has managed to bring down her comp and almost infect the entire server several times through her lack of being computer savvy. (it's savvy, not sawy)), and I imagine I'd just be walking up to be chewed up and ignored in a patronizing way. Anywho, the port it currently uses in pref/connections is 57426, and first that's an awfully high number from what I've just read. Second, would opening an extra port in the firewall and setting bittorrent to use it, (lets say 6881), fix the problem or not? I think I've got a NAT system because we have 5 computers in the house that all share the same cable connection, but I'm no expert in hardware and therefore I really don't have a clue. Input?
WOW, that's like forgetting to plug in the refrigerator and then calling the repairman because you think the compressor must be bad. I closed and restarted bittorrent and what do you know, it started downloading one of the previously red items and the symbols green again. Fuck yeah back to 200+kb/s
Aight, fight over who gets the best answer award now.

 

[CEN]

I hate it when people write the word as "sawy" also.

Port 57426 is fine. Opening another port won't help, especially not 6881, since there's a small chance that your ISP may actually block that port.

Yes, you're correct that your router performs network address translation (NAT). You imply that you've already done this, but I'll say it anyway; forward port 57426 in your router. If you don't know how to do this, follow the instructions in your router manual or visit http://portforward.com

You must also open the port in your software firewall. You will also need to either use a static internal IP for your port forwarding to function or, if you have a router that supports it, use dynamic port forwarding based on hostname, rather than IP.

It's also possible that you have a perfect configuration but you're just connected to really slow and/or greedy peers. For example, Xunlei clients prefer other Xunlei clients, so if you're using some other client, you have slightly lower chance of getting any data from them than other Xunlei clients do.