Torrents won't download

Hi, I am very new to using BitComet and I am trying to download a torrent and everything goes fine up until I actually have the torrent in BitComet. There is just never any progress. It stays at 0% no matter what I do - I’ve turned off my VPN, turned off my firewall, nothing seems to work. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions. Thank you so much!

Use a fixed IP number and check that the open ports in your router match those on the chosen IP number (both TCP and UDP).

Also, check on the seeds/peers column - the figure in brackets shows the number of active seeders/leechers. If the seeder is zero, then you probably won't get anything