ive been using p2p sharing since the napster days, done em all from napster to ares to winmx to kazaa to kazaa lite to limewire to frostwire, and ive decided to try torrents.
i first used Bittorent, but it was reallyt slow (same problem as below i think) so my cousen reccomended switching to Azureus, so i did.
now heres my problem.
my faces sometimes are grey, and never get past yellow.
download speeds are never faster then 5kb/s.
im on a mac g5 running OS X and am connnected via ethernet cable directly to my Sharter Surfboard High Speed cable modem.
ive searched threads and they all talk about adjusting your router and such.... i do not use a router, so i cannot do this.
Sounds like you ISP is blocking torrents. What is your ISP, perhaps someone will know? Meanwhile, try a port that is not the default and over 50,000 and enable encryption. Don't know where it is, though.
