Anyone recommend any good ones with links that may actually work?

isohunt?

pirate bay is usually good for me

http://www.riaa.com ?

I trust mininova only.

Pirate bay always works for me…what sort of stuff are you after?

waffles.fm 😯

what.cd

Mininova here too

Depending on what you are going to download could I also recommend installing Peer Guardian

For films superfundo.org is the one.

cheers guys. I think its actually the torrent software thats playing up, but i got what i needed anyway! Thanks!

I use these with UTorrent

Meganova|http://www.meganova.org/search.html?search=
Mininova|http://www.mininova.org/search/?utorrent&search=
Bitenova|http://www.bitenova.org/search.php?search=
BitTorrent|http://search.bittorrent.com/search.jsp?Submit2=Search&query=
Btjunkie|http://btjunkie.org/search?query=
The Pirate Bay|http://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=
TorrentSpy|http://torrentspy.com/search.asp?query=
Torrentbox|http://www.torrentbox.com/torrents-search.php?search=
Torrentreactor|http://www.torrentreactor.net/search.php?search=&words=
Torrentportal|http://www.torrentportal.com/torrents-search.php?search=
IsoHunt|http://isohunt.com/torrents.php?ext=&op=and&ihq=
PointBlank|http://bt.point-blank.cc/?search=
Seedler|http://www.seedler.org/en/fhtml/search/
Google|http://google.com/search?q=
Google.torrent|http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1=0&q=filetype%3Atorrent+=

Don't bother with public sites. Try and get on a private site.

don't bother with torrents at all – get everything off rapidshare et al.

I don't bother with either torrents or rapidshare… I keep it old school with newsgroups – works for me!

I thought old school was buying it!

torrentpond?

Isohunt & Mininova – all you'll ever need.

Depending on what you are going to download could I also recommend installing Peer Guardian

It's a load of old cobblers that proggy. Get a vpn :)I haven't a scooby how newsgroups work.

The problem with peer guardian is that it only blocks known IPs from directly connecting. All the lawyers do is get your IP from a tracker so it's essentially useless.