#ENABLE OR DISABLE UPNP ON ROUTER PRO#

Theres a second PC in the other room off this same router and also using Messenger, and from what I understand port forwarding can only go to one PC at a time and will just mess things up if both PC's try doing the same thing at once. So I figure maybe I should disable UPnP again, but, I read that without it everything must be 'port forwarded', which confuses me cause I still don't understand it enough.

#ENABLE OR DISABLE UPNP ON ROUTER PRO#

Every once in a while, just a few times a day, I'll get the 'a network cable is unplugged' message pop up (using Win XP Pro SP2), and its only there for a split second n then gone, and then a minute later Messenger will realize it happened too and sign out n back in, so the connection is dropping for just a second there I think. And, I've seen a couple posts around of people saying their connection keeps 'going up and down' with UPnP enabled, and I think thats happening to me too. Ok, that fixed it, transfer speeds back to normal.Д«ut, I been searching around some more, and reading the reason its off by default is all these security risks associated with it. Then about a week ago I was using file transfer on Windows Live Messenger, and the transfer was going slow, really really slow, and I searched around a bit and found the solution was to just enable UPnP in the router. I got a new Linksys BEFSR41 wired router two weeks ago, Firmware is up to date I knew enough to check that, and it came with UPnP disabled by default. I'm kind of new to home networking and have some questions about UPnP.

Enable or disable upnp on router