I downloaded a torrent file, and the file immediately started downloading in Limewire. The problem is that speed was 0 to 25 KB/s the whole time, and I don't know why it was running so slow. The file had well over 1,000 seeders and under 400 leechers. I have no idea why the download was going so slow.

I decided to search for that same file through Limewire using P2P, and the file starting downloading at an average of well over 300 KB/s. I'm located in Long Island, my ISP is Optimum Online, and my speed is 15 Mbit/s down, 2 Mbit/s up. Why is there such a difference in download speeds for the two methods?