[U2Lynne]

First off, it is entirely possible to get high upload and download speeds if you are firewalled. Being firewalled simply means that you may not talk/connect to anyone else who is firewalled. So, if a lot of people on the torrent are not firewalled, then you can get great speeds. However, if most of the people on the torrent are firewalled, then your speeds are greatly limited to only being connected to those that are not firewalled (and, don't forget that all the other firewalled people may only connect to those that aren't firewalled so the non-firewalled people are forced to send out their data to a lot of people and thus can only upload at a small rate to any one person). I hope that makes sense.

The IP that shows up in the Peers List is your actual IP. The one you need to forward your ports to is the 'local' IP which looks something like 192.168.1.xxx. If you look at your network settings, you should have it set to be a static IP and you should input an IP that looks like 192.168.1.xxx. Now, when you go to your router at 192.168.1.1, you should forward your ports to that same IP, 192.168.1.xxx. If you pick ports 6881-6889, then you should go to your BitComent app and put in those same ports. Make sure you do not have it set to be a random port (which could account for that port number that was not within the range you specified).