upload rate faster than download rate

[lasaire]

So, I've got 2% of the l33t-raw for Naruto 79 finished, and my upload is faster than my download. Any idea why?

[Wilik]

This is probably because of people limiting thier upload. The way BT works is you connect to xx people and if those xx people limit thier upload to say... 5kb/sec and they allow 3 people to connect to them then you are getting 5kb*xx/3 kb down. Sometimes you just have to wait till you get a hit on a good sharer, someone with like 100kb/s or more upload.

[kage_bunshin]

If you are using DSL, the uploading affects the downloading speed. If the uploading is too high, then it will slow down the download speed. Use a bittorrent program which you can limit the upload speed.