How long should a torrent take to download?

Answer 1

Because you have chosen a torrent that has very few peers/seeds. Either that or your firewall/router is blocking the connection to some degree.

It will only go as fast as your internet connection will allow. If you want to speed it up and are sure your router/firewall isn't a problem then either upgrade your internet connection or choose a similar file with as many seeds as you can get.

Answer 2

For most people download speed issues in torrents are due to improper setup of their bittorrent client.

This guide should help your uTorrent speed:

Optimizing µTorrent For Speed

http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/optimizing-torrent-speed.htm

Also, torrents with a high seed to peer ratio will generally give higher download speeds.

Answer 3

Because the download speed of torrents is dependent on your peer's upload speeds, which are, in general, much less than your download speeds. Networks are often provisioned to offer much higher download speeds to users since the majority of traffic goes in that direction.

Other potential reasons might be security measures or throttling on ports often used by torrent clients imposed by your ISP that might be slowing your connection (often the case in university or company LANs), or you are using a torrent client/tracker that requires that you upload more data to other users before you are allowed to download more yourself.

Answer 4

It depends on a large number of factors, including the size of the file, the number of seeders and leechers, your available bandwidth, and the bandwidth of the seeders and leechers.

Answer 5

It will depend on the speed of your internet and how many seeders and peer there are in the file.

Therefore the more seeders, the faster.

Answer 6

Becacause the data being transferedis freakin huge probably! Either that or you have terrible bandwidth and have sucky internet data tranfer per bit.