Bridget Carpenter

You probably don't have Utorrent setup right, as thus get poor speeds.

Below is a step by step guide to ensure utorrent is set up right.

Utorrent tweaks.
 
For starters, get rid of the latest Utorrent (that you probably have), it's slow and bloated and a POS in my opinion.

Download 2.2.1, it's the best version in my opinion. (I have tested a lot)
You can get it from here. (see link below)

http://www.oldversion.com/windows/download/utorrent-2-2-1-build-25302

Once installed, follow these settings.

1/ Open up Utorrent and go to Preferences.

2/ Go to Connections in the list.

3/ In connections check these settings.
Port used for incoming connection 45682
Enable UDnP port mapping
Enable NAT-PMP port mapping
Add Windows Firewall exception.

4/ Go to Bandwidth and pop in these settings.
Maximum upload rate – 1 (best speeds) or 22 (legally best speeds)
Maximum download rate – 0
Apply rate limit to transport overhead – Uncheck
Apply rate limit to uTP connections – Uncheck
Stop transfers on user interation – Uncheck
Global maximum number of conection – 1890
Max number of connected peers per torrent – 2329
Number of upload slots per torrent – 14
Use additional upload slots – Check

5/ Go to BitTorrent and check all these settings:
Check everything except limit local peer bandwidth.
Outgoing: Enabled
Allow incoming legacy connections – Check

6/ go to Queuing and pop in these settings:
Maximum number of active torrents – 60
Maximum number of active downloads – 63
Seeding Goal minimum ratio – 100%
Minimum seeding time – 0

7/ Go to Advanced -> Disk Cache and pop in these settings:
Check everything in this section.
Override automatic cache size – 500

8/ Go to Advanced and pop/change these settings:
bt.allow_same_ip – True
bt.connect_speed – 20
bt.enable_tracker – True
bt.no_connect_to_services – False
bt.send_have_to_seed – False
dht,rate – 2
gui.bypass_search_redirect – True
gui.delete_to_trash – False
ipfilter.enable – False
net.outgoing_port – 50
net.wsaevents – 150
peer.disconnect_inactive_interval – 900
queue.dont_count_slow_dl – False
queue.dont_count_slow_ul – False
rss.update_interval – 20

Click Apply and restart Utorrent.

Good luck with it all and let me know how your speeds are afterwards.