Thanks for the suggestions and replies.

I went home last night and again I tried to download using bittorrent.
I left it going for about 30 minutes to see if it would be the same problem,
and obviously it was. Even though I was still a little bit confused with
some of the message I was receiving. I mean according to bittorrent
I have downloaded 2.0MB and I have uploaded 7.0 MB, which begs me to
ask, if I have only downloaded 2 MB why is it that I have uploaded 7 MB?
What else was being uploaded?

Anyway I decided to disable my firewall and see if that would make a
difference and after 5 minutes, low and behold, it did. My download
rate went up to 10 KB/s and eventually to 22.2 KB/s. Well I thought
this is better.

But then of course the problem of being on the internet without a firewall
really doesn't sit well with me.

So I thought I'd ask around if I could keep my download rate of 22.2 KB/s
as well as have a firewall. Someone actually told me that bittorrent works
on ports 6881-6889 (approximately) and if I configure my firewall to reflect this.

Well I actually haven't tried it yet because it was getting late.

Anyway that's where I am at the moment.

Thanks again for everyones help and suggestions, much appreciated.