bittorrent slow

[Kenneth Porter]

On Tuesday, March 21, 2006 3:35 PM -0500 sean <seanlkml at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Don't know the specifics of your situation, however you may be hitting
> a problem caused by upload speeds that are too high.  If you saturate
> your uplink by filling requests by other swarm members, the
> acknowledgment packets that need to be sent to keep your download
> humming get delayed and end up reducing your download speed.
>
> Bittorrent clients let you rate limit your upload speed to avoid
> this problem.  Setting it to 60% to 80% of the total uplink speed
> provided to you by your ISP usually gives best results.

Another solution for this is to shape your output. Get the wondershaper 
script at http://lartc.org/. It's designed for just this kind of situation.