[GeoffP]

Thanks very much for responding. On my router's login page, I have forwarded the same port as the one listed on my bittorrent client's preferences. However, both the bittorrent client and canyouseeme.org show that port as being closed. I even changed bittorrent clients a few times to see if that mattered; it didn't. I believe the issue is that the router can't open a port on the VPN (OpenVPN) server. Don't know if there is a way around this when using VPN, unless the VPN provider allows port forwarding (they don't). I have tried using the computer's IP address, the router's IP address, and the IP address from the VPN server, all without success.