all hell broke loose after VPN

Before I installed VPN, everything was fine, I was able to port forward and was getting a good D/L speed. Most of the initiations were Remote. After VPN I can connect to mabe 5 peers and all the initiations were NAT traversal. I do not have a firewall, I’ve checked, it’s disabled. Please help. I can’t live with out downloading

When you’re logged into a virtual private network, you’re dealing with that network’s firewalls and routers, not your own anymore. Disabling your own firewall, apart from being a really, really bad idea – like taking your front door off the hinges because you had trouble with the lock – is irrelevant in this situation.