Indeed, i needed to forward a port on me device. Im quite the happy downnloader now and figuring out the rest as i go!
Thanks for the link, it helped.
LOTR and others who are so fab in all the support you give: THANK YOU!

As I continue to optimise & maximise Im not sure what a good number of slots is for uploads. I've seen the posts about bandwidth...so if thats set right does matter? is less slots more or what? When my machine gets quite slow I turn off ultrapeer. If it's still draggin its bum I figure this may be why.... hmmm