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RE: Why is bitorent so slow?
It's not BitTorrent that's slow, its the actual torrent you have. If someone on dialup is the only seeder and 1000 people at 0% are download a file from them, it will be unbearably slow. If there are lots of peple contributing a good upload speed to the whole torrent, it will be faster.
If you look, you might find another torrent of the same thing, but this one might have many more seeders, and thus be faster.
Like some people have suggestes, limit your upload to about 80% of your theoritical max of your connection. I'm in 512/128 ADSL, so my theoretical max upload speed is 16 KB/s. 80% of that is 12.8 KB/s. You chould experiment with that value a bit. I get best performance at that setting usually, but when I use a torrent with lots of peers connected to me, I sometimes drop it doen to 10 or 9 KB/s.
Just remeber once you've finished that you didn't enjoy the slow speed and seed the torrent for others.
BTW about the program you are downloading, there is a final out (not beta like you have), and this one is a properly packed one, but about twice the size. Being better it is probably more popular and faster.
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