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Are you connecting via ethernet or USB - ethernet is preferred. Make sure your NIC has current drivers, and if you were previously using AOL all the AOL settings are cleanned off your PC.
Speed of torrents is nothing to do with the speed of your connection but everything to do with how many others are around to let your connect and download. If there are only 2 or 3 other shareres of the file you want, they also have their upload throttled right back, you can't get much. Torrents also work faster the longer you have been online with a file.