Have to say that Monsoon, the default torrent is not good at all. It crashed a few times and was very slow at downloading. I really don't know why. I was grabbing a torrent at about 60k/s. I tried with transmission and got 400k/s!

So that's both the default music player (Banshee) and the default Torrent client failing to work on my system. Not a great start for a newcomer!