Newbie Question: Why aren't peers connecting?

[JH338]

I've downloaded literally thousands of torrents, but today I created my very first torrent. After a couple of false starts, I finally got it working... sort of.

About 8 hours ago I uploaded the file to a site that I (and thousands of others) use to download torrents. I didn't expect immediate results, so it didn't surprise me that for several hours the information in the Trackers tab said that I was the only seed (DUH!) and no peers. Then, I started to see some activity.

My max upload speed isn't anything to brag about (250ish kB/s). The torrent's one file is about 2GB, so it took the first downloader a couple hours to get it all. Also, no surprise, it was a "grab and go" - after updating several times, the Tracker tab still says 1 seed (I can't complain... I do it more than I'd like to admit).

It is now 2 hours since my one and only downloader has departed to parts unknowable. The Info tab is saying "Peers: 0 of 6 connected (3 in swarm)"

Why aren't any of these peers connecting to me? Is there anything I can do to force a connection to them?

EDIT:

These are the trackers that are showing activity:

http://announce.opensharing.org:2710/announce

http://fr33dom.h33t.com:3310/announce

http://tracker.ex.ua/announce

http://www.h33t.com:3310/announce

udp://tracker.istole.it:80/announce

udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80/announce

udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80/announce

(In addition to DHT, Local Peer Discovery and Peer Exchange which are also listing peers)

[ktetch]

For a start, you have less peers than you think you do. You need to cut out some of the trackers, ONE is enough, 7 is just being stupid.

read this piece http://ktetch.co.uk/2012/07/multi-tracker-ignorance-or-why-you-dont-html/

Otherwise, you've just got an unpopular torrent (at present).