Why do I not get the full download speed?

You'll only get full speed if you have cable. If you have DSL (Internet through your phone line) then you wont get the full speed you're paying for. With DSL it also depends on how far you are from the exchange, whereas it doesn't matter with cable.

Edit: Maybe your ISP is just unreliable. Phone customer support, and unless there is a fault, you could look for another provider who supplies a faster and more steady connection. Ive been with a few different ISP's, and i could be getting a great connection for months when suddenly it will slow down and won't pick up again. Ive switched to another one since then, and im now getting a very reasonable speed and it's stable. Compare different providers online, find some reviews, otherwise i don't know, sorry.

basically with the aid of fact your have the bandwidth does no longer propose any given torrent can use all of it. If human beings have not got speedy uploads then you definately wont get speedy downloads. If there are basically some seeds or friends then your get carry of fee would be low. - Dominic

It is strange that once u got 200kb/s speed coz if u r using a 512kb/s connection u shud get 64kb/s speed as 512kb/s stands for 512 kilo-BIT per sec and u r download speed is measured at kilo-BYTE per sec.... and as u know 1byte==8bits...

They do the speed cappings on old customers connection whose intrenet usage goes higher on daily basis.