If the outbound link is saturated with BitTorrent data, the latency of these TCP/IP ACKs will rise, causing poor efficiency. The reason this happens is due to the nature of TCP/IP - every packet received must be acknowledged with a small outbound packet. If you are seeing very high upload rates and low download rates, this is probably the case. This is especially true for asymmetric connections such as cable and ADSL, where the outbound bandwidth is much smaller than the inbound bandwidth. * Sometimes, limiting your upload rate will increase your download rate. The more peers, the faster the transfer will be in general. To get decent speed, a torrent must have at least a few other people connected. Or, check the status of the torrent (using the website's statistics or TorrentSpy) and make sure there are other people connected. * Make sure the torrent is 'live.' Use an experimental build of the client that shows the number of peers and seeds to which you are connected.

* If you have a software firewall, make sure the BitTorrent client has the proper access. See this section of the FAQ for more details. Otherwise, only outbound connections will succeed. This will allow inbound connections from peers. * If your network uses NAT, make sure the BitTorrent ports are forwarded to the machine that runs the client. Leave the client open and eventually it will connect. Recently, trackers have been quite overloaded and it's common to get timeout-related errors. The beginning of a download will be especially slow since you don't have any pieces of the file to share with others. Sometimes it can take a while to contact a slow tracker. * Give it time! Be patient! This is the most important suggestion for most speed-related problems. Here are some general guidelines to getting fast connections with BitTorrent.

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