more seeders = lower speed

[zlo2]

Hello,

I realize this may sound a little stupid but lately I've been noticing that the more seeders the torrent has the slower the download speed is for me. Just a week ago I downloaded a file with 10 seeders at 200 kbps and right now I'm trying to download a file with almost 1000 seeders and 2000 peers and I'm not getting more than 2-5 kbps. And it happens a lot to me. Of course this is most likely a weird coincidence, or is it?

It is really frustrating because my connection is capable of high speeds but for some reason I rarely see them. . . especially when hear some people are downloading at 500-1000 kbps.

Any possible solutions to my problem? All ideas welcome.

Thanks

[thelittlefire]

Why are you trying to connect to 1000 peers?

[Switeck]

Bell ADSL ISP in Canada heavily cripples BitTorrent traffic.

So, too many connections at once cuts into the max download+upload speed that Bell DOES give.

Those really fast downloaders are often UPLOADING very fast as well. It HAS to balance -- for every 100 KB/sec someone is downloading there has to be at least 100 KB/sec upload from others.

[zlo2]

Thank you, that explain a lot actually.