ok, will try to explain more clearly, last night i turned everything off and re-booted pc, connected to net and ran a adsl speed test file, got a download speed of 53.2 KB/s, now thats about 425kbps, correct?, im on a 512 connection so thats ok, i then watched download data for ten minutes and no data was being transfered, well a few bytes but nothing worth worrying about. i then connected to bit comet, i have one download only, all other files were stopped. the file download speed was between 2-5 KB/s, upload between 8-15 KB/s. but on top of bitcomet page it said download was between 15-25 KB/s, this morning when i checked i had downloaded a total of 656 mb, yet the file im downloading had only gone from 49% to 53% on a 1.2 gig file, now by my calculations thats about 50 mb. hope this explains it a little clearer.