bittorrent slow

[Stephen Mirowski]

    I understand that
    one of the features of DOCSIS 2.0 is an increase in the available
    upload bandwidth, but I don't know of any cable HSI providers who
    have yet done the major upgrade of their systems needed to support
    that.

Shaw Cable in Canada provides Extreme Internet in a few of the major
cities using Docsis modems.  This increases downloads by approx 2MB/s
and increases the uploads a tad I believe.  Maybe when I get a job,
I'll get it, first month is free!!  

I have bad luck w/ Bittorrent.  My friends seem to do okay.  I got
good speeds on Quake4 demo, but nothing else.  I'll seed this FC5
386 DVD to help out others out.  I have my uploads set to OC3 speeds
but am only uploading at 20KB/s?  I can do 45-50 KB/s on ftp and ssh2
transfers.  Any idea of how to improve speeds for uploading?

Stephen