Cant download and seed torrent on my pfsense old pc

Those WAN rules aren't good. They won't cause you any problems because you can't have the LAN and wireless networks as source addresses, but you don't want allow all rules on your WAN.

Your outbound rules must be set on the LAN and wireless interfaces, the WAN interface is for inbound rules of which you want none unless you have set up a port forward.

Imagine it like this: You have a cable going in to the interface on your pfsense box (for example lets use the wan interface). Where the cable comes from (in this case your modem and therefore the internet) is the source, so the source address can only be something from there (an internet address). The destination address can only be the interface (the WAN IP address) or something connected to a different interface on the router (the LAN or wireless network).

The same goes for lan, the source is something on the LAN network and the destination is either the LAN interface IP address or something on a different network (WAN or wireless).

The default action of the firewall is to block everything, this is an invisible rule at the bottom of all the interfaces, any allow rule above that will override it. All rules are read top down and the first to apply is used. So if on your LAN and wireless interfaces you have the default allow all rule which will allow any source to any destination then all traffic is allowed out of your network. If you have no rules on your WAN then no traffic is allowed in. This is what you want, the upnp will create rules for your torrent client and whatever else needs inbound rules.

Hopefully that makes sense.

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