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Use Shields Up! at grc.com to test for open or closed ports. Since it's at a remote site on the Internet it "sees" your system as a peer would.
There are no better or worse ports for forwarding. Just avoid any that are reserved. This site has good info on forwarding for many applications and routers:
http://portforward.com/cportsn.....reus22.htm
Were you running Azureus when you tested the custom port number? If your setup is like mine, then you won't see that port open until the application that needs it has asked for the connection. Run Shields Up! while Azureus is working in the background and you should see the open port.
There are too many variables to know if 40 KB/s is a good download speed for you. It depends on the torrent, how many seeds, how many peers, the bandwidth available from all of those seeds and peers, and so on. Some ISPs throttle P2P service when or if they can detect it.
Tom, the post from jd2066 reminded me of something. If you have a software firewall that could block the port, then you would need to tell it to let Auzureus through. The router in your Westell 6100 acts like a firewall and requires port forwarding. A software firewall on your system, even the built-in Windows Firewall, will block traffic as well unless you tell it to allow a program or port to open.
Well, I suppose it's possible that the open port is stealthed to ICMP (ping) packets but is open to P2P packets. I have never seen such a thing. Even if that were the case, the port test in Azureus should check for P2P packets not pings. If the Azureus port test is failing, I don't think that you have accessibility and you won't get the best performance.
Does the Azureus port test display any status?
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