#12 Need uPnP to get >10k/s

[John Richard Moser]

Clients like azerus or bittornado utilize uPnP to tell
NAT boxes like Linksys and D-Link routers to let
incoming bittorrent traffic through. Without doing
this, the user has to configure his router himself to
open up some odd ports (like 6881-6999) to his
machine-- this only works for one machine on the
network btw.

Using gnome-btdownload, I managed to get the torrent
for Chrono Symphonit (chrono.ocremix.org) at an average
of 7k/s. With BitTornado on the same machine, I
subsiquently downloaded the same torrent at 700k/s.
After nat forwarding the ports 6881-6999 back during
the fourth day of a 1.5 gig torrent, the speed suddenly
strated to climb in gnome-btdownload; within minutes it
was at 200k/s down and still going.

Until gnome-bt is able to use uPnP, other clients will
be literally 50-70 times faster on networks utilizing
NAT. Rip the code from BitTornado or something; this
is a bug.