Harry, Thanks for the reply. Sorry if I confused you. I'm confused too. Basically I'm trying to figure out why no matter what I try, I can't get a clean copy of the ISO on my hard drive. One that will pass the md5 check. I know from experience that an ISO that doesn't pass the MD5 will be more trouble than it's worth.

In past times I also have had fast downloads with this system, but doesn't seem to work as good as it used to. All I've tried to d/l for quite a while is Knoppix ISO's however. The ports are forwarded, firewall is opened up. Did this on both systems.

Very well could be Azureus is the bottleneck, but it seems it should still write a correct file. Like I said before, I also tried Shadow's BT. I even tried it with Knoppix running Azureus. Used Klik to put it on the system. They were about the same speed. I think for an experiment I will try the original Bittorrent, just to see if it makes a difference. I used it a few times quite a while ago.

And yes, I did copy the ISO to a DVD. The purpose was to try and transfer the file to the other system. The ISO file on the DVD also passes the md5. When copied to my hard drive, however it would not pass the md5. This is what is confusing me.

And I did burn a couple images so I would be sure to have a working DVD. worked great. I just copied the ISO as a test to see if I could copy it to the other system. But it doesn't work for some reason. Tried a couple times, but can't get a correct md5 from the file once it's on the hard drive.

I plan to figure out the file sharing over the network eventually. I agree just from what I've read about it is a local ftp server would be the way to go. I've never tried winrar. The file splitter I used is from here: http://www.dekabyte.com/filesplitter/ . Works pretty slick, but again the resulting file didn't pass the md5.

Anyway I plan to do some more experimentation. I'll go back and give the original BT a try just for a test. At least I have one system that I know will work.

Thanks for the replies, if you think of anything else please post it.