Torrents slow down towards end of dld

[kel101]

So for the last few weeks any torrent I download, the speed will slow down to around 1kb/s when it gets close to finishing and I have no idea why. I have the latest nightly version, and it doesnt matter where the torrents are from i still get the problem. Any ideas?

[booyahboy]

When I try to click on that above link, it tells me I am not authorised to view that forum!

Help?

[nnj2004]

Same here -- I'm not authorized to "read this forum."

Anyone out there with an answer to the slowdown question?

thanks

[tmcdanel]

The links above are not helpful. Thank you x190 but i think this is not a configuration issue. Rather i think people are curious about the mechanics of torrent clients and how they complete a download.

My experience is that a popular torrent will download in few minutes, but the last .5% may take an equal amount of time. My interpretation would be that the pieces served by faster peers come in quickly but the pieces coming from a few slow peers are the last to finish. And that contrary to expectations, a piece does not come from more than one peer.

Is this correct?