I have the same issues which is why my ratio is always down the crapper.
Download speeds will be slower because your school's firewall only allows you to connect to certain unfirewalled peers on the downloading torrent.
And then, if download speeds are slow, just imagine what upload speeds are. They are even slower...snail speed. If you can manage to find a good unfirewalled peer the speed will really pick up (250-400 kb/s) but this is rare.
Don't forget also that since you are on a network, the speeds will vary with internet usage of the whole network. I've seen the speeds pick up after say...1 AM. But from about 3 PM to 11 PM it can be quite slow.
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