Honestly, forget torrents and get into newsreaders. When was the last time all of your torrents came down at the full speed of your connection? Even on my crappy ADSL 1.5mbit link I average over 100Kilobytes per second for *every* download. Plus, you are not dependent on people 'staying on once they have finished' to get the download
Perhaps we should put a newsreader tutorial up somewhere if there isn't one already (I'm useless at searching)