I am puzzled. I now understand that the red locations are people behind firewalls, and that this makes it tougher to download...

For the past week, I have come to associate these red locations as great places to download from. I see one and I jump for joy. For some reason, all of the black locations I try (usually I only try T1s, T3s, and cables) never work. Whenever I try a red location (again, always T1, T3, or Cable) it always gives me a speed of 16kb-60kb/sec. It almost never fails.

Can someone explain to me why this is? Shouldn't it be the other way around?

Also, I've found that the quality indicators (the stars) are not consistent with the results I've been getting!

Thanks!