The points Sphinx made are very true. You'll also see this from the following tips: See the following link & follow all the off-shoot links to find hints & extra skills to help solve your problem: To continue files downlding (click on link)

Let's do an experiment! Downld a magnet link from this site: http://www.magnetmix.com/video.shtml
To see what speeds you can potentially get from this site see Stief’s example: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...692#post138692

If your speeds are still around the 5-10 KB/s then your ISP provider could be the problem. They might be using a p2p filter/bandwidth shaper. Here's an example of how a bandwidth/traffic shaper works: http://titan.iwu.edu/~it/Policies/ShaperPolicies.html