Port forwading for P2P

[Hayden_ 2]

Hi,

I've researched this on the forums, and couldn't find any solutions, so I thought I'd make my own post. I'm currently torrenting a large file and wanted to port-forward via the control panel (38490) as it can apparently improve performance & generally better practice, and changed it on qBittorrent. Even after doing this, CanYouSeeMe.org returns the following even when I'm seeding and downloading multiple torrents:

Error: I could not see your service on 217.151.98.168 on port (38490)
Reason: Connection timed out

 

[OpenSourcerer 1442]

Did you restart qBittorrent after the change? Did you reconnect?