u dont reach anywhere near 512 if ur on adsl
but if ur on idsn or sumet like dat u get ur full speed wat ur paying for!!!!

By using bittorrent do you mean using a downoad manager like Flashget which splits up your large download file into many 'bits' rather than downloading it in order?

I'm not sure how you can downoad a common download using bittorrent.

bit-torrent is P2P.

you download a .torrent file, and open it with your torrent client.

Then your computer downloads the fileyou want from as many other people as it can find who are also downloading that file.

whilst simultaniusly downloading, your computer is also uploading the portion you have to several over people.

ther download accellerators just make sumultanius connections to the download server.
which generally just annoys whoever's job it is to read system logs, and rarely imporves download speed, unless the server is under high stess, making things wore for other downloaders.

i dont really like bit torrents because its like a sharing thing and for me(ME) its rally slow.i heard its because someone has to be uploading for you to be downloading. and of course uploading for peeple that are downloading are a waste of bandwith and will try to minimise upload speed-wich mean slower download speeds for others.

nice stuff
it's really help me
nice dude

A family member of mine uses Internet Download Manager (though you have to buy it after a one month trial period), I think it's pretty good, really speeds up downloads.

try reget it really is faster!!!

Well. also you can try a download accelerator like DAP 8.0...

It's Really useful, It's makes up my speed to the double!!

Regards, Jhin

You SHouldn't close your antivirus, your computer will get viruses

Yeah they really cheat people who are new to Broadband like me when I first try out my dsl connection they said a couple of times that is I have 512kb connection that will be my download speed and they said to try out internet speed checkers it also reached up to 512 but when I download file directly it only reached up to 80 some times up to 90 kb per/sec so that's why companies cheat newcomers how dare them but hey who could blame them business is business I suggest having a research on the internet connection company that you will subscribe because if you pay big but the service is very crappy like being lost connection like when playing online and you where DC but a few seconds that sucks. so if you want to have a very high speed internet connection PAY for it and also use other OS because Windows cuts the speed thats my suggestion.