If all settings and configurations are correct, than 'speed' is entirely dependent on the 'capacities' of the individuals with whom you are connected, and whatever other applications may be consuming your bandwidth...

Trying to Download files with the greatest number of sources will help, but there is nothing you can do to 'speed up' Uploads with the exception of devoting more of YOUR bandwidth to the task...

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Tomorrow's forecast:
Sunni in places, Shi'ite in others...