For you Zep....certainly!
Ok before when I using Bit Tornado or Bit Comet the torrent would say )on the website) 50 seeds and 200 leechers. When I connected to it I would usually get about 10-20 seeds at best. Also I didnt seem to be downloading from any of them, just the other leechers.
By the time the torrent got near the end there were so few other leechers that had what I needed that it would slow down to literally 1-5kb
Even at the best of times I was getting about 30kb but this would go up and down quite a lot.
Then Damian pointed me in the direction of a little fix that opens the number of connections XP can handle from 10 up to 50. Whether or not this made much difference I dont know and I still cant use Bit Comet on my new PC because it causes it to reset itself. Saying that though, the new nForce drivers 6.66 cause it to reset after 3 mins of desktop too. Im probably gonna have to send it back.
Anyway, getting off that tangent. I then went into my router settings and tried to open the ports that Bit Tornado uses 10000-60000 or something like that. The stupid fucktard interface wont let me change any settings for some reason so I had to go into the DMZ settings and enter the IP of that PC in there to totally remove it from the router firewall protection.
I just use the plain old XP Firewall now and nothing else.
As soon as I set it as a DMZ my light went green in Tornado and the number of seeds shot up, as did the leechers. At the same time my download speed went from 10 to 110kb.