Trying to download a well seeded torrent but getting slow speeds

[mayhem117]

Ok first off my internet connection is crappy. In a speed test I get 1.10 Mbits/s for download and 0.15 Mbits/s for upload. I've tried calling the ISP and they said this is the highest speed I can get because the advertised max is a 1.5 Mbit connection and that is all they have in my area.

I'm using Windows 7 and when I try to download I get decent speeds 120-130 kB/s is the highest I've seen it reach, upload is around 22 kB/s. I've done the speed test and it works okay but for some reason when I try to download a file from a torrent that is very well seeded I always get slow download speeds (20 kB/s max)

Ex. a torrent was just uploaded an hour ago and I've been trying to download it, currently I get 22 (1715) for seeds and 38 (7868) for peers with an availability of 18.998. My download doesn't get above 15kB/s while my upload speed is a steady 20/kB/s

Does anyone know why this is happening and what I can do to fix it?

[rafi]

try the test torrent that's in my sig

[mayhem117]

I changed the settings also for the CPU and speed options as stated in your sig. As for the test torrent it is downloading at a whopping 130 kB/s (About as fast as I've seen it get). As for the torrent I'm trying to download it keeps jumping from 5kB/s to 80 and here and there inbetween. Is the torrent I'm trying to download just bogged down by people trying to get it?

[rafi]

As long as you get the performance you expect from your connection with the test torrent you are set well for download. No way to tell about other "general" torrents.