Have any one experience slow speed on your bittorrent lately?

Did you experience exremely slowdown in your torrenting activities lately? My download speed has greatly decreased since 3 days ago. It got really ridiculous to point where every file went on to like 1 or 3 kbps and it could only reach 20 kbps the most. I am not talking about measly tracker here. I am talking about those with lots of seeds and it is ridiculous to get speed as low as 3kbps on average. I can understand if they are currently shapping the traffic but to throttle it to the point of 2 - 3kbps is pretty ridiculous for broadband internet. What is the point of paying so much for 2mb - 4mb broadband when all you can is surf the internet? The 512 kbps package will do that work just fine. You don’t surf the internet every minute in front of your computer, right?