well....the only other dl program i've ever used is kazaa and i dont think the two programs can really compare but i do get better speeds with kazaa sometimes...

with my current bt im uploading at 8kb/s and downloading at 0kb/s my max upload is 15 kb/s (at least thats my understanding of it)....im connected to 7 peers and 7 seeds....

i have only tried the official bt client and also some other experimental client but not much difference....the first client i used was workin pretty well for a while but i dont remember which one it was (i think it was the 3.3 experimental from scarywater site)