New to Downloading torrents

I'm new to all this.  Everytime I try to d/l a torrent using utorrent, it seems to take forever.  Is there any other program I should be using or another way to do it?  All help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

[i]You can try for ex Bittorrent,but take into account that the speed on the torrent you are downloading also depends on some other things (ex: your connection,:the number of people sharing the file)[/i]