I downloaded Bit Tornado and joined this forum a few days ago. I read all of the info on being firewalled. I went to PortForward.com and setup a static IP address and setup port forwarding on my Linksys WRT54G following the directions to the letter. I went in on Windows XP - and Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security - and setup exceptions for the ports used by Tornado (10000 to 10010) and Torrent (6881 to 6889). No matter what I do, I constantly get "FAIL" no matter what port I check using NATcheck and cannot get rid of this BS "firewalled" condition...no matter what I try. This is beyond frustrating. The statement I read somewhere about this being a "black magic" deal was the truth for sure. Any suggestions? Thanks.