ooooh ooooh ooooh
someone (thanks vegitta) in the Why is being firewalled bad? forum suggested that ports 6881-6889 might be blocked by isp and one should try ports 7045 to 7050. i made the changed my port forwarding accordingly and ran the connection checker... it came back with "rejected by tracker - i can connect to you perfect score". i wasnt sure of that was good or bad.
i made the port changes in the BT prefs window.....and hey presto the cd image that was DLing at 1kbs on a yellow light is now miraculously DLing at 17kb/s on a green light.
so from this i can leap to the conclusion that blueyonder users should fiddle wih their ports.
as i write the DL rate is up to 27kb/s
happy fiddling.