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Anyone who knows anything about computers knows how tricky it can sometimes be to forward a port when you are doing wicked things on the internet – like torrents.
\nIt took five years of trying – in fact I have never been able to work out how to forward a port despite all the step by step instructions available on the internet.
\nToday I forwarded a port successfully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anyone who knows anything about computers knows how tricky it can sometimes be to forward a port when you are doing wicked things on the internet – like torrents. 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