The health is allway a yellow smiley, which gives VERY bad download speed. Like, under a kb/s.. I have a router, but I don't know how to configure it up to Azureus. If that's the problem?
first of all, download utorrent, uninstall azureus. then you have to open a port in your router which allows in and out traffic. what kind of router do you have? do you have any experience with this?
Its FORWARD port, not open port. Yes, get utorrent, its a lot better. Go to portforward.com and theres heaps of guides customized for each router on how to forward ports on your router.
I've had the fastest speed using Azureus, utorrent sucked for me. But anyways, the speed depends on the amount of people downloading, and whether or not the port is forwarded.