Torrents always yellow smilie (Azureus)

[silvercue]

Hi,

I have tried many of the things suggested, but am stuck with this.

I have NTL Cable with 1.5 meg download. I get yellow smiley on health checks and my connections are marked as "L", so I have a remote connection problem apparently.

This is apparently a NAT issue or to do with forwarding ports. I am not behind a router, but my modem connects directly to the NIC. I have tried with both the XP Firewall and ZoneAlarm off, I have downloaded a version of tcpip.sys that allows more connections (sp2 issue) and I still only get yellow smilies.

My downlaod speeds are very low, usually only 12kbs, my uploads were much faster, but I have now limited them to 15kbs - still very slow downlaods and yellow smilies. I have also changed the listen port to outside the default range - which gives a slight boost - but still YELLOW!!!!

Any more ideas. Port forwarding is only for firewalls is it?

Sorry if you all seen this type of post before but I have searched and tried everything.

PS - I get like 100kbs+ with normal downloads.

[crackerjacker]

dood do u know that alot of torrent sites are being booted off right now.
u will be lucky if u will finish this torrent.

[silvercue]

well it's still downloading with 11(1310 Seeds and 49 (1205) Peers and it's at 15kb/s atm.

I hope I can get it to the end.