Well, the setting have been retained on the router. I have changed the protocols to both TCP and UDP. I did try the http://www.canyouseeme.com site. It does tell me the port is closed, but it returns a different external ip address than I had yesterday. Is this something I should deal with?

I do want to thank all who have responded to my (somewhat more temperate) comments. However... I will run through step by step how I have followed your instructions and perhaps you can see where I have run afoul. I have set the range of ports on Deluge to 50981 - 50981 I have discovered my IPv4 to b...

Now Gentlemen, I phrased my last post as judicially as I could, because I know that many of you are volunteering your time and knowledge to this forum. But I can scarcely contain my frustration with this process. I had always thought the purpose of technology was to open up information to people, no...

So this is going nowhere. After spending a couple of hours trying to learn about port forwarding, DHCP, static addresses, I set my virtual server to the setting suggested in the documentation from the last post. The result is I have nothing but a reply that my port is closed on 76.67.97.19 which see...

Sorry, software crabbiness got the better of me. Let's try the port forwarding thing.

Loki's answer worked once. Subsequent attempts still gave me the reply that the port was closed. Even disabling Windows Firewall entirely still gave the reply that the port was closed and now Deluge does not start at all. Is this the best you guys can do for a piece of software?

I've just downloaded Deluge for the first time. I'm trying to download a torrent for a test, but I keep getting the message that there is no incoming connection. I have tested the port (set to random ports) and each time the port is closed. I have set Windows Firewall to allow Deluge. How do I get a...