Ok, I'm ready to just quit using computers. Can someone please explain to me how in the heck (I REALLY wanted to say another word), with no router, and my software firewall configured to forward ports, TCP can be open just fine but UDP is ALWAYS firewalled? Basically, I'll be honest here and say the subject is file-sharing. On one app, BOTH TCP and UDP ports are somehow "not reachable", they time out, say they're closed or stealthed, and every other message under the sun. On another app, TCP is reachable just fine (I get a "High ID"), but UDP (Kad) is forever "firewalled". Nothing I do works. Ok, look, I've tried Comodo firewall and now Norton Internet Security 2007. Comodo likes telling me that these apps are trying to connect to ports I haven't forwarded and set up in the apps themselves. And Norton, lol, well you can set a rule for an app all day long and a half hour after you set it, the rule has suddenly changed EVERY little radio button, and specific information you set. I know what I'm doing, I've done it a hundred times, I set everything according to Portforward.com. This crap all started after I upgraded to the latest Comodo firewall, the previous version NEVER did this as far as I know. And what is equally, insanely stupid, is that I've even reinstalled the OS since then, and on a CLEAN install I can't the stupid ports/apps to cooperate. What exactly am I missing here? I know if I had a router a Static IP configuration would be in order, but do I need to do that with just a software firewall? Can anyone save a poor young soul before he just gives up and calls it a day on computing forever? (By the way, if the answer turns out to be I was supposed to have set up a static IP regardless, I'll just go ahead and jump in a cold lake and be done with it, lol)

I'm not even believing this, I turned OFF the firewall and tried two different port testing places. One of them says both my TCP and UDP ports are unreachable and the other place says they are both open and ready to go. What in the hell is going on?