slow downloading of movies

I have very little computer knowledge and am trying to learn. I have been trying to download movies. I have DSL and I am picking hosts with DSL, 4 stars. I am also using titles that have the most hosts sharing them. I have even gone in and changed my firewall properties using the directions I found on site. After doing all this I have up to 6 hosts downloading to me but I am getting very slow progress. I have been downloading the same moviefor the last 20 min. and only gotten 5% of it. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks