[boobylops]

is there a possibility you could borrow someone else's router, configure it properly (DHCP portforwarding) and see what happens then? Sometimes ISP's block torrent traffic. If your are firewalled again it's due to your ISP and changing a router won't help in this case.

Ps what is the model router you're using? Home network?

I had a BT HOMEHUB 3 running with McAfee anti virus. ISP=BT.

I had kept my old BT Hub 2 and installed that, configured port forwarding etc but still no joy. Then I removed the McAfee firewall , lo and behold now good to go.

Some further research on BT forums tells me that the Homehub 3 does not support port forwarding properly without a downgrade of the firmware and the McAfee thing was compounding the problem.

Advice to all ...... if you have a home hub 3 bin it!

Thanks everybody for the assistance.