Why are the torrents so slow?

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi everyone,

Why are the torrents so slow? I usually get download speeds of up to 600 
Kbps. (both torrent or direct download) But with the 64 bit XFCE torrent 
I'm getting downloads @ ~20Kbps. At times the upload spikes to 90Kbps, 
but I don't mind that as long as it downloads faster.

I can't wait to get my hands on the release and I want to share, hence I 
went with torrents over direct download. :(

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Suvayu

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