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Anonymous
You're probably maxing out your upload, you usually max out that before download. Set your upload limit to something below your ISP's cap. For example, my ISP gives me 768kbit (= 96kByte) upload, so I have my upload in utorrent capped at 80kB, leaving me plenty to surf. When gaming on the internet I lower it further to 64kB and shorten the queue to reduce the number of connections, this ensures I get no lag. Make sure that all of you together aren't maxing out your upload.
Another suggestion if you have lotsa ppl in the same house torrenting; back when I was living with a couple other torrenters, we set up a server as a designated torrent box. Just shoved it in a corner with no keyboard or monitor and we all VNC'ed into the box to add torrents to the queue. That way there was only one box to regulate upload and we didn't have to all coordinate our upload caps.
Oh, and also helps if you've got a decent router. I recommend Dlink or older Linksys with Hyperwrt firmware. Linksys WRT54G version 5 = crashy time. RMA'd 3 of them before I finally demanded a version 4. Avoid Netgear.
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