it is true that you are experiencing low transfer rates, but its not as low as you seem to have put it. you are confusing kb/s with KB/s, they are 2 very different measures of speed. your connection to the internet may be 512Kb/s while your speed is 5KB/s.. although it is still rather slow for your connection, as kmag said, your isp is probably filtering/throttling your p2p usage. i have a 3Mb/s adsl connection, which translates to a 384KB/s connection, i can further reduce this translation to 3072kb/s or, 393216 bytes/s, or even 3145728 bits/s etc..