I had a guy in my torrent using uTorrent. When I first saw him, his download was at 11%. Then my file was done in over 2 days, I looked him up again. 11%. I feel sad that I couldn't tell him to switch to Deluge.

I'm on alpha18, but my port still closes after a few minutes. I was however pleasantly surprised that even with a closed port, my download is smooth thanks to a few quality peers and 1 seeder. My torrent has 14 peers, but only 6 are active.

I think it boils down to the magic port and the hour of download.