My Bittorrent download speed is less than 1kbps. What should I do?

[Keshini]

I'm using the Bit Torrent 7.6.1 version and for most of the time, the download speed is around or less that 1kbps. I tried a lot of trouble shooting, and I can't either understand most of them, or the rest doesn't make much of a change. Can somebody please help?

 

[RobertRichardson]

Did you set port forwarding.

i know it says, UPnP and NAT-PMP technologies to prepare your router for torrent access,
but this does not always work, you need to check your router to see if the port for Bittorrent has been opened..