All right here we go. First test your NAT reachability options. To do so, go to Tools > NAT/Firewall Test and test Incoming TCP Listen Port. Usually the default port works fine. When you get the port ok then everything is fine. If you get NAT Error then you need to go to advaned option. Let us know here what is your situation. Assuming your port was fine, you need to set your trasfer settings. For that go to Options, click on Transfer ( Not on the + sign). Change the KB/s global max upload speed to 10 ( depends upon your connection but 10 is good enough) and Alternate rate to 0. It means that while you are downloading you are letting other people to leech at the rate of 10 KB/s but you are generous enough to upload at maximum speed when you are not downloading anything. Set global max download speed at 0 if it isn't already that. Now you need to assign the default directory for your downloads. Click on Files and you will see that option. Change the location if needed and leave rest as they are. Expand the File menu by clicking on + and you will then click on Torrents. Unmark Save .torrent files. Well you can leave it as it is but you are downloading torrents in different folder anyway. Other settings leave them as they are. Now to download something first you need to download torrent files from torrent sites. There are number of sites you can find online but for the free non-member site http://www.mininova.org is the most popular. There are other private sites like http://www.torrentleech.org , http://www.demonoid.com or for Bollywood http://www.desitorrents.com where you need an invitation from the member to join. So start with mininova. Search for whatever you are looking for. If you find something then look for the SEEDS. The higher number of that, the better your download will be. You will see an option to download the torrent file there. Download that in your computer and when you will run it Azureus will automatically detect it. Then you will notice things happening in Azureus. If the speed is slow, give it some time before it picks it up. Keep on checking the number of seeds and peers. You will notice something like 10(15) in seeds/peers column which means you're connected to 10 seeds/peers of the total number of 15 seeds/peers. If it is 0 then you do the maths.