Torrent programs fall under the same glitch as Google.com and any site run by it. if my router was on now, and i was not tethered to my phone, this particular laptop will outright say 'host not found google.com' instantly. same for YouTube. Gmail. any Google site. Bing, however and any other site, works perfectly fine. i never changed any setting, it's still factory default. it just hates Google; Torrent programs, as rarely used as they are by me, will claim 'you got low-id'
weird part is how IE and any windows computer has none of that trouble, not even windows torrent programs. IE in Wine will connect to Google fine via my router. it's some combo of Firefox, Linux networking, and my router conflicting. also, my router has pretty bad DHCP pools. ever had a device on your network, say another laptop if on, 'steal' an IP Address from another connected device, thus bringing down the entire deal? my PlayStation 3 has that problem on wifi only