It can depend on what sources youre dwnlding from. eg: u might be dwnlding from several dialup modems. Also the sources may have set limits on their updld bandwidths! You can only dwnld as fast as they'll let you. You might also be sharing their upld bandwidth with others.

For hints on how to optimise your setup see these following threads: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...5&pagenumber=1

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=27036

Search techniques: dwnld probs
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=27285

By the way, please only post one thread about a problem at a time - no need to post the same problem in 2 threads. Otherwise we may ignore u.