Post 'em here.  Here's a more recent one from me... I've gotten up to 750KB/s though; that's my max line speed.  6mbits!  I love bit torrent.
 
EDIT: removed until I can block out my "passkey"
 
-mpjesse

I rarely get over 15kb/s.  Really sucks  I am on cable internet.  Doesnt matter what torrent it is.  all ports are forwarded.  Ports used changed from default.  Using abc for downloads.  What do you use?
Any other suggestions?

Best that I've gotten is 485 KBps. It was an episode of Scrubs, and ended taking like 8 minutes. Found one guy to grab data from at 415KB alone, not to mention the rest of hte people I was snatching from.
 
As for your slow speeds sturm, who's your ISP? If it's Roger's Cable (Canada), then I know that they purposely slow down the BT protocol (The whole protocol, not just the port). Try using port 1720. I think this is the port that's supposed to be used for video conferencing, but found my DL speeds instantly jumped once I switched BT to use it.

I've managed to get just over 850Kb/sec on my 10Mb line.
 
   
 
theory says I should be able to get quicker but not managed to break the 1Mb/s barrier yet

I think you're at your limit hubbartdt. If you assume a 70/30 download to upload ratio on your 10Mb line, that would put your maximum download rate at 875 KB/s (7Mbps). Now, if you take into account overhead in the packets, etc. an 850 KB rate shouldn't go much higher.

isp is comcast.  I have the ports set to use above 10000.  Will try a lower port number to see if it makes a difference.
Once in a great while Ill  get upto 40 to 70kbs. but most of the time it sits less than 20 or 15.

great download speed, but im not happy about ur upload speed.  Your connection is clearly capable of more than that so stop being such a leech lol

Try using bitcomet, bittorando, or azureus.  I personally use azureus.  BTW, my ISP is comcast too.
 
Additionally, forward these ports in your router and make sure you bit torrent client knows to use the following port range:
 
port range 6881-6999 (TCP only)
trigger port: 6969 (TCP only)
 
I know that's a lot of open ports, but bit torrent will use them all if it can.  Also, try downloading from a good site.  PM me and i'll let you know the good ones.  You'll have to register on them... but it's not big deal.
 
-mpjesse

Well changed to azureus and my speeds have jumped alot.  I was getting upto 130 to 140 KB/s at times.  Overall its mostly still in the 30 to 50 range but thats better than the 6 to 10 I was getting.    
I also have bitcomet that I havent installed yet.  May try it to see if it works any better.
As far as ports go I raised mine to 60000 +.  The FAQ on azureus site said to use ports higher then 49152.  Stll need 6881 open though.

mpjesse you might want to spray out your tracker url as well as I can see your passkey for the tracker. That would allow me to impersonate you and use your share ratio to download of them. Also Azureus only needs one udp/tcp port to be forwrded to your computer. the orignal client needed several but Azureus is able to work over just 1. On my 2mbit line I often see 220KBs.

LOL.  Thanks.  I dunno shite about bit torrent passkeys and whatnot.
 
And yeah, I just noticed azureus is only using 1 port.  Pretty cool.  
 
Thx,
 
-mpjesse

About 1.5MB/s is my record. But I don't use BT that much since I'm on a 100Mbit connection and we have some good DC hubs here. Normal speed for DC is 5-11MB/s.

150kb is about the highest I've hit, and that was a one time deal.  Majority of the time I'm stuck in the 20-30kb range. :?

i once got over 1MB, on a supposed 4Mb cable connection. i managed to get a screenshot right at 1024 KB/s, and i was using remote desktop at the time.
 
 8)  
i am ninja

Got 340Kbps on my dsl line. decent i think.

MAN Those are some crazy numbers.
 
I'm using SBC dsl with shareaza as my bit torrent and I dont get but 1b-55k.

I have the following P2P clients installed:
 
- eMule Plus
- Azureus
- Shareaza
- Bittorrent
- Newsgroups
 
I find that Azureus and Bittorrent give me the quickest speeds.
Shareza hooks into both the Gnutella and Edonkey networks so you will find more sources but speeds tend to be lower.
 
Newsgroups is the only way I max out my connection.
 
 

Death to the newsgroups...
 
While I respect their ability to get data out on the web, I hate the fact that 3/4 of what I download ends up being in multi-part RAR packages. So rather than being able to just watch my movies, etc. while seeding them, I have to decompress them to watch them, and keep the rar packs around to seed. Uses up twice as much space on my HDD for no reason (Compression of < 1% ==> pointless to compress).
 
Worse is when I get multiple zip files, which each contain a rar package, which I then have to combine into a 3rd zip package, which then uncompresses into the data I actually want. You may laugh, but it happens, and again, for no appreciable gain (Actually, a loss, as the first zip only compressed about 1%, then the subsequent ones increased the file size).
 
Which multi-part packages may be necessary for NGs, BitTorrent takes care of it all for you already, so I don't know why people keep putting them up directly rather than decompressing the files and sharing them in their raw format. GAHHHH

Max was 212KB/sec, sits anywhere from 60 to 140, depends on the torrent.
 
However, I agree with you, Emogoch.
 
Although it is handy when one of those rar files is corrupt (it has happened at least twice to me) as you can ask another user to send them to you... but in the long run this rarely happens and i dont suppose i'd mind downloading it again... maybe there'd be more seeders and less people deleteing the rar files from their shared folders if the downloads were in straight avi form?
 
Start a motion!

My fastest speed was 131kb/s but my line max is 141kb/s for ADSL.  Slow I know, but too expensive to change over to cable.

Hub..
You were definitely right. I switched to azerus and it rocks!
 
Thanx for the advice.