If you don’t have port forwarding, you can only connect to peers that do.

If you have port forwarding, there’s more potential peers to connect to. So yes it can make downloads faster.

Funny, I’m in the process of selling much of my Computer Reset pickings for cheap, including my 486DX4 100MHz that I ran Mario 64 compiled for DOS on. It ran at a blistering 3 frames per minute.

I’m leaning toward a short somewhere, since you said the PSU starts up with the paperclip but not when plugged in to the board.

I been through about 10 TN-450 cartridges in my Brother printer and can count on one hand how many jams I’ve had. And I’m pretty sure they were all because my kid would take paper out and leave a page sitting crooked in the tray.

Recently had to replace the drum.