There is no need to forward ports if he is not using a router. You should always change the default ports of the BT program due to ISP selective bandwidth limitations on known ports. Also you can disable windows firewall, I always do since its garbage. The link in my earlier post also goes step by step with manual port forwarding. Also for the people who think its the seeds, that is not necessarily a problem. You can have 500 peers but no seeds and as long as you have at least one distributed copy you will go just as fast.