I think there's a bug or something on a newest version :/. I had to install 1.8.0 back because download speed was only something like a 30 kb/s (now 1.8.0 it's 800kb/s). edit: hmm.. a bit more details, I think Ok, so I don't think that it's because my computer. I've 1.8.1 for a long time and never before it hadn't have any problem. But Today it wouldn't start to load any torrent at all. But no, no proxy, it's my home PC. And ISP... Well, OK, this ISP totally (I mean Totally) sucks, but I don't believe that it would block just 1.8.1 torrent (it's not on a list of ISP that blocks torrents). Now on a 1.8.0 and everything works perfectly . And the problem was, (repeat, repeat...) that it just wouldn't start to load anything ;/.