I'm no expert on torrents (believe me, you should've seen me about 2 months ago--I had NO idea what I was doing), but the more peers and seeders that are online, the faster the download speed is. For example this is what I see under the Queen Milwaukee 1980 gig:
Seeds 0 (0)Peers 2 (4)
There's nobody that has completed the download yetThere's 4 people in total downloading the gig, yet 2 are online
Speed is between 12-16 kb/s