I am trying to download 7.33 gigs of information and it is taking ages since it is downloading at around 28.3 kB/s. Help it will take me until the end of the summer!
You need to do some research port forwarding and make sure your router/modem has an open port through the firewall to allow full upload and download speed. The firewall is probably blocking many potential seeders from accessing your IP address. Check out http://portforward.com/
Once I made these tweaks I was consistently getting speeds over 500.
you can't. the download speed is set by how many seeds you are connected to so when you are going to download a torrent look for the one will the most seeds