[TheMamba]

Your overall download speed is primarily determined by everyone else's overall upload speed.

The two people on etree could have both had T1 connections and weren't seeding anything else.

The five people here could have all been on dial-up. Or, they could have been using DSL but also seeding other things, or cruising the internet, or downloading other torrents. Or THEY could have been firewalled. Etc. etc.

So...it has nothing to do with The Trader's Den. It's just a function of the peers on the torrent you're on.