I was having issues with upnp devices not being detected.

To anyone else who is having a similar problem, I would recommend doing the same as I did, manually adding your router to the router list.

Edit
~/.kde/share/apps/ktorrent/routers

just add your router IP at the top while ktorrent is closed, and it should detect your router this time round.

Hi Hug-attack. Could you write the syntax of your router for me please. When I opened my routers file it was blank so simply wrote 192.168.1.1 there. However, the ports have still not been forwarded.