Why is Bit Torrent so slow? Can I speed it up?

[AnnaSassin]

The file is 677 megabytes, yet Bit Torrent is telling me this will take weeks to download??
My Down Speed and Up Speed are both usually decimals (0.7kb/s...) and it's really starting to annoy me. I've heard people can get tens of kb/s or even hundreds, what is wrong with mine???
-I'm only downloading one file at a time.
-I'm not running anything else, like MSN.
-I've tried turning off my firewall.

 

[Nahum]

Your ISP may be throttling the speed of the torrent. It might be a matter of just downloading at night, or your ISP might be cracking down on torrents in general.

Some torrent programs have a way to encrypt transfers, which might let you get around the throttle.

If you're downloading something that you ought to be buying in a store instead, stop being a cheapskate and don't bother with (usually virus-infested) torrents.

 

[Stevene]

how many seeders or peers do you have? the more the better, the less the more you wait.....