Hmm, cool.

Well, from what Ive 'learned' so far ( and correct me if Im wrong), there are 2 numbers associated with torrents- seeds and leeches. I THINK seeds are places to download from (sources), and leeches are sources downloading the file. If there are more leeches than seeds, then itll likely be a slow DL.

The less seeds, as well, the slower.

So... that means torrents would fall victim (or be greatly helped by) popularity. More popular a file is (like a hit movie), the more people will downlaod it, meaning there will be much more seeds (the more ppl that DL, the more seeds are 'established', cuz as you DL a torrent, you at the same time upload the file back, creating a seed)
Vice versa with not so popular files. Less seeds, slower DL.

If this is true, then that would explain partially (or perhaps majorly) why my torrent is being 'slow' - its not a very popular series. There were only less than 30 episodes in the whole show series. I think the most seeds I seen on one of the torrent site was about 60.


Like I said, i THINK this is how it works.