Maybe (maybe I say) it's because you are running 3 p2p apps simultaneously (that's what I gather from your post).
To get 1 dld faster, you should dld it from the fastest possible source (T3 if you can find one, but beware: they won't always serve what they say) and have only that dld active. It should be finished in record time

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