Lotsa seeds and peers, but no or few active downloaders

[range_rat]

Pardon my newbie lack of the correct vocabulary, but I recently ran into a phenomenon with BitTorrent. I used to download multiple (10+ or so) torrents at the same time, regardless of how many or how few seeds there were at any given time. I could reach 140Kb downloads easily.

Now, despite a plethora of seeds and peers, I see little or no actual downloading hosts downloading files. For example:

Somefile 0 (25) and 0(145)

The first pair is seeds, the next peers.

Occasionally I can trickles from a couple at the same time, but nowhere near as before. I thought I was being throttled by my provider (Time/Warner Cable) but running Glasnost and other such programs says otherwise. Is my setup whacked? I have tried some of the techniques in the FAQ's to no avail. I probably have something out of order but for a long time BitTorrent ran flawlessly.

Thanks for your advice in advance,

Jon

[Switeck]

You on an ADSL modem from AT&T (SBC Global)?

If so, that modem needs to be configured?

1st and 2nd links in my signature.

Do the test torrents mentioned in 1st link of my signature work?