[Sailordolly]

how many seeds and peers are available? The torrent program should tell you something similar to "Seeds: X(of Y)". If there are few seeds, then that means that all of the bandwidth on THEIR end is being spent sending parts of the files to a lot of people, so you are merely getting an equal slice of a very limited pie. However, as long as the download isn't actually frozen, you can just leave it running in the background while you do other stuff. Also, torrents can be paused and resumed whenever you like, as long as SOMEBODY is still seeding it somewhere.