Bad ul/dl rates on bt. Please help

[Uchiha Barles]

Ok, I'm having a problem downloading things using bittorrent. My upload and download rates are abysmal. I've run a bunch of bandwidth tests and it seems that my cable company put a cap on my upload, but there's no reason for my max download to be around 20kbps. The download problem is only with bittorrent. When I do direct downloads I have no such problems. My cable company is cablevision/optimum online in new york and I'm using the azureus client. This problem occurs for all torrents on all torrent sites. Anyone have any ideas?

[el_boss]

When you download torrents, ul-rate and dl-rate are directly connected. If your ul-rate stinks it doesn't matter what your dl-rate is, it will still stink. One thing that might help is if you lower your ul-rate in the client, bacause you need some ul-rate so you can send info about what you ate going to dl.