utorrent won't work

[ssjdeathlord]

allright, so I start a torrent that has plenty of seeders and leachers, but utorrent won't connect to them, I look in the trackers menu and I've got 3 different trackers with 3 different statuses, the first : http://p2p.arenabg.com:2710/6719c6a5edf8e585c23d208b1d9 says that a connection couldn't be made because the host machine actively refused it, I'm thinking private tracker, but I doubt it because I've gotten that on another one that I know isn't. The second :

udp://tracker.thepiratebay.org:80/announce gives me invalid url, ok, so make the url is actually invalid, or it could be a problem with my udp?

and The third http://tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce says working and gives me 4368 seeds and 13872 peers. Yet I still have no connections and no DL speed, can anybody help me on this one? I go through a Dlink DI-624 wireless router to a siemens speedstream 6520 adsl router, I've never been able to seed for crap but I've always been able to download. Please help, I don't want to have to format this damn computer again.

[thelittlefire]

uTorrent doesn't support UDP trackers. Connection refused is a tracker problem. . . .but if TPB says there are peers, it's possible your connection is suffering from ISP interference. Do the test torrents work? http://slackware.com/torrents/

[ssjdeathlord]

No, all of the torrents at http://slackware.com/torrents/ give me the message that "no connection could be made because the host machine actively refused it"

[DreadWingKnight]

Probably a problem with your configuration.

Biggest causes:

1> Software Firewalls not configured properly.

2> ISP interference.

[ssjdeathlord]

no computer firewall, first thing I turned off, and no router firewalls. That leaves ISP interference, any way to get around them?

[DreadWingKnight]

Turned off?

What firewall?

[ssjdeathlord]

windows firewall*, I know it allows for exceptions but sometimes it acts real wonky.

edit: OK so I've got a fresh and updated install of XP. I've got my port properly forwarded and the test torrents still won't work. I guess what I'm asking is if there is any way to tell if my ISP (frontieronline.net btw) is blocking me short of actually calling them up on the phone and asking them if they are trying to stop me from commiting piracy (that's not what I plan to do at all).

Edit edit: if anyone actually looks at this, I got it to work again, dumbass that I am, I forgot that I had to apply the patch to allow more than 10 half open connections on xp.