Why is my downloading so slow?

I just got a macbook pro (an upgrade from the old macbook) and i downloaded utorrent. I'm downloading 2 items at the moment, a movie which is 4.2 GB and a video game which is 6.7 GB. I had no problem downloading movies in my old macbook but i couldn...

Last night my internet was fine and pumping out it's proper download speed of 12 mbps while trying to download ISO's. Today though it's downloading at about 1mbps and will shoot up to 3-4 mbps and than drop back down. I'm using the same website, even...

Ok.... Before we start i am pissed on how slow this is going. So i am downloading a patch to a game. It is a 270.5 MB size file. It is on 0.3/270.5 MB and i have been running it for well over 45 mins. It has estimated that it will take 14 ******** days...

Recently and suddenly, I've been experiencing slow browsing and downloading speed on my computer. I don't know the solution to this problem and why it has happened... my internet connection speed is 54.0 Mbps, but if I'm trying to watch any videos on...

Im having some problems with downloading torrents. So right now i am downloading a game and it has about 4.93 gb and im downloading it like at a speed of 5kb and this is happening to all my downloads. I end up having to cancel each on eof them because...

Has anyone else noticed that Windows Update downloads extremely slow at times? On my connection I average 500 kbps, so a 200 mb update should only take 7 minutes to download. However, this process sometimes takes up to an hour to finish DOWNLOADING ...

Whenever I am downloading a file through BitTorrent my download speed goes very slow. When I ran a speed test on SpeedTest.net it says that my download speed is 0.12Mb/s(which according to google calculator is 122.88kb/s) but when I download anything...

I use Azureus/Vuze to download my torrent and usually i would have 200Kbs - 650Kbs when downloading a torrent. But im trying to download Fallout New Vegas and its going unusually slow from 5Kbs - 50Kbs and its starting to get on my nerves... I set my...

When I first started to use Rapidshare, downloading was at full speed, 55kb/s. But then until last month I noticed whenever I downloaded something from Rapidshare that my activity light wasn't flashing the whole time. Instead from flashing continuously...