A lot of people seem to have this issue because they don't know how torrents work.
It's p2p. You are connecting to some (many) people who are uploading parts of the file and downloading other parts of the file (peers), or people who have the whole file and are just uploading (seeders). Your speed will depend on how many people you can connect too (which in turn is dependent on how many connections peers and seeders are accepting), how capable your router is at handling a large number of connections, and the speed the people you've connected to are uploading at. Finally, some isps (rogers) will jam the hell out of p2p connections of any kind.
If you want to test it, find a hyper-popular torrent with a large number of high-bandwidth seeders and see what you get.
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