I prefer Deluge myself, as being able to access it from a client on my desktop is a nice feature, as well as being able to configure/install from the client. On the other hand, Transmission is more lightweight, and probably faster as well. Both support FlexGet for automatic torrent downloads, so rea...

You shouldn't need to port forward to get SSH working in most cases.

Make sure its the correct IP as shown in your router, or by using 'ip addr show' on the Pi. Also, I would use pi@<ip> rather than root.

Setup is pretty easy with phpbb3, mostly just downloading it into your /var/www and running the install.

I got one set up running as good as can be expected, using LLMP. Lighttpd should be a lot faster than Apache2 on the pi.