If BitTorrent is not as fast as it should, and if the cause is your local firewall blocking the upload channels, here's a command you can run as root on your system to open up the BitTorrent upload ports: iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp \ --dport 6881:6999 -j ACCEPT Run this if your local firewall is tightly closed and it will allow uploads. After you're done with BitTorrent, run the same command, but replacing -I with -D and it will close the firewall back up. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/