A sort-of noob guide for Windows users with login/port/ISP issues...

Well first of all I wanted to start off that just a day ago all of a sudden Soulseek stopped working for me, no version of it (I even tried the old NS build), it gave me that "login socket error blah blah blah" message that many know and love. Sometimes it would just outright crash. No messing with settings worked. Then I switched from my cable's router to the wi-fi router on my phone, and, all of a sudden, it started working again, albeit ridiculously slowly! I was having none of this, but thankfully through the wi-fi router I managed to access the damn slsk site that informed me of how to check on the port issues (a site that inexplicably leads me to a "website not found" page on my cable router). So, though this may be obvious to some, here's the site to go to that finally fixed my problems: http://www.pcwintech.com/port-forwarding-guides

So for the noobs as myself, so you won't have to be scrambling looking for a solution and contemplating the state of control our authoritarian ISPs have on our Internets in today's age, first:

1) Find out from the list what brand your router actually is (pretty obvious first step).
2) Click on the guide for how to access it. Usually this will involve entering your IP address in the search bar (starting with http://), then entering login and password (most of which are helpfully listed on that site for numerous routers and models). If you are also a noob at finding your IP, like I was too, just go to your command line ("cmd" in your start search should do), and enter in it "ipconfig." Next to "Default Gateway" is your IP, hurrah! (thanks to the above site yet again: http://www.pcwintech.com/find-your-router-ip-address)
3) Once there depending on your router there will be a menu in which to forward ports (in my case, Netgear, had listed outright "Port Forwarding" in the menu selection on the left). Enter the port range you want opened (since slsk usually uses ports around 2235 and 2236, which told me were blocked by that helpful slsk tools site that my main ISP wouldn't let me access for some reason), I myself went broad and opened "2000 - 3000" and then, miraculously, I could get on Soulseek again with my main, much faster router! (if this was too broad and I somehow opened up some bad port I should not have don't hesitate to let me know so I can correct this!).

I have no idea what happened that my ports got blocked but that was an easy fix for me in any case. Maybe this won't work for everyone but this seems to me one of the better-kept secrets on a potential solution to this common problem I see with a solution that I never see mentioned, or at least explained. Hope this post is acceptable, and maybe helpful to someone, I do know it was helpful for me!