Torrents always dog-slow
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Well, could be any of a number of reasons, some of which are in your control, others which aren't.
1) Do you have a port forwarded at your router to your computer? This makes you directly accessible to the 'Net for BitTorrent and allows you to connect to more peers.
2) Do you have your max upload bandwidth in your torrent client set to at least 10 - 20KB/s less than your max upload possible? Sometimes if you're uploading at the max allowed by your connection, it will slow down your inbound, since you can't send ACKs to incoming packets in a timely fashion.
3) Is the torrent well-seeded? This is out of your control, but if there's only one or two seeds and/or leechers, the torrent will likely be slow.
1) Do you have a port forwarded at your router to your computer? This makes you directly accessible to the 'Net for BitTorrent and allows you to connect to more peers.
2) Do you have your max upload bandwidth in your torrent client set to at least 10 - 20KB/s less than your max upload possible? Sometimes if you're uploading at the max allowed by your connection, it will slow down your inbound, since you can't send ACKs to incoming packets in a timely fashion.
3) Is the torrent well-seeded? This is out of your control, but if there's only one or two seeds and/or leechers, the torrent will likely be slow.