Greetings,

The whole point of UPnP is that it automatically opens and forwards the ports however, are
you sending to the same person in particular? I ask because if they're in some environment
where outgoing connections are restricted, they would see this problem which would be
unrelated to you.
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"thedave" <anthraxscare@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:5OUef.2180$KP5.300161@news20.bellglobal.com.. .
> I've added many UPnP port forwards to my router settings.. directed at my machine's LAN IP
> and it's still virtually halting aftter 3 seconds
>
> thanks in advance
>
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