P2P v. Torrent

[Darwinian]

I'm trying to download some Red Dwarf and now Vuze is running like a pig below 10kB per sec. When I was downloading Torchood it came in at over 300kB/sec.

Is it because there aren't many other users online with this Red Dwarf File or do I need to tweak Vuze?

Probably the former. Older files tend not to torrent well. Most torrent websites have the recent number of "seeders" and "leechers" next to each file. You want to pick a file that has a large number of seeders and a low number of leechers. Seeders are people who are sending parts of the file to people, and leechers are people who are simply downloading the file without sharing much back.

Where do these websites get the torrent files from? Still curious you see.