Downloading speed problem with specifics (Can anybody offer help?)

[db108108]

I've been trying to port forward and stuff, but I just can't seem to get it to work no matter what I do. No matter which torrent application I use, my download speeds reach a maximum of maybe 15 kb/s on a good day, but are usually around 1 or 2 kb/s. The torrents I'm trying to get are pretty popular as well, so I know it's not an avaliability problem.

Here are the stats for what I'm trying to download now:

Veronica Mars 2x05

Seeds 0(1249)

Peers 0(1554)

42% done

Nothing uploading or downloading.

Another:

Arrested Development 3x05

Seeds 0(367)

Peers 0(243)

24% done

Nothing uploading or downloading.

I've been at this since Monday at have made minimal progress with downloads that shouldn't be a problem.

I'm on Roger's High Speed (3 MB/s download), and that it put through a D-Link DI 514 router. I have XP and am behind the XP firewall as well. I don't have anti-virus.

Can anybody offer suggestions?

[1c3d0g]

Rogers is teh suck, I'm sorry. If you can't switch to another ISP that doesn't throttle down BitTorrent traffic, forward port 1720 and set peer.lazy_bitfield to *true. :/