I had Windows 7 installed on my PC and torrents (all legal) downloaded at a rate of 2MBps. I used uTorrent.I now have Kubuntu 13.04 installed and have kTorrent, which can only achieve speeds of 550KBps even though I know they should be downloading at the rate of 2MBps as I have tested the same downloads with windows, and it achieved those speeds.I installed Ubuntu and Open Suse as well and all achieve the same speed of 550KBps even with different clients (rtorrent, Transmission etc), so why is this happening?
Why is my download speed a lot lower in Linux than other OS?
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