bittorent help

[SilverWind]

I have the utorrent but it is going so painfully slow...I have no seeds, and 1 or so peer connected. If the seeds are the problem, how do I get more? If they aren't the problem, (which I'm betting they are...) what's going on, and how do I fix it?

[Dr Unne]

Seeds are other people who have already downloaded the whole file, and left their BT client run so other people can download from them. Peers are people who are sharing parts of the file, but haven't downloaded the whole thing yet. You need one or the other to download from. (If there are 0 seeds, it MAY be impossible to complete the download at all.)

You can't increase the number of seeds or peers, short of calling your neighbors and telling them to turn on bittorrent.. If there are few of either or they are all slow, just find another torrent, or wait.

[htotheh]

try BitComet, it's perhaps the best out there