Why are some people uploading/seeding with only single digits B/s?

I dont want to seem ungreatful, I downloaded a really rare piece of music history that way (over almost 2 weeks) and am seeding it now. But I am genuiently interested, how this happens. Surely no connection is that bad, even with vpn and up/down-limit?

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Having bittorrent traffic set to low priority while being online and doing other things can lead to that, especially someone seeding multiple things at once.
Also depending on where they are or how they're connecting their ISP could be throttling them.

Not everyone on the internet lives in western countries with 1gb fibre connections, hell remote parts of the US are still stuck on very slow ADSL if they don't have access to starlink.
Your seeder may be in ButtFucke WY or could be in a little village in Phillipines or Nigeria

I have a seedbox. On private trackers I limit my UL speed to give home seeders as chance to build ratio.
For public torrents where I am the only seeder, I throttle upload so the leech might appreciate the value of having multiple seeders and will seed the torrent so the next user doesn't have to go through the same bad experience. It hardly ever works, though.
- I never do the latter anymore. was downloading a pretty rare dvd rip awhile ago I only found after a really long time. download was slow, for about 4 days I was downloading and then seeder went offline and afaik never came back up. now I try to make sure if im the only seed to try and make sure they get priority to decrease the chances of that happening
  EDIT: btw props to btdigg, I did eventually find it in some collection thanks to that
- Seeding on a private tracker on a home connection with a VPN is fucking impossible.
  I have a very high seed ratio but nearly everything is on public trackers.
  And I don't have bad internet or anything (1000/1000 -VPN costs) so I could easily seed quite fast. But it never happens.

If they have a rare piece of music history they're probably also seeding many more popular things as well, which are eating up all available bandwidth which might not be much.

The Internet connects the whole world. Other places in the world are not like your place. Other places' Internet connections are not like your Internet connection.
- nobody has single digit B/s
  
  Mine can get surprisingly close 👀 The Balkans are surely, one of the places of the world.
  
  Someone's running a Bell 103 for laughs

I could barely even get things to seed from my PC even though I have fairly fast Internet. I spent some time trying to figure it out but eventually I gave up. It may be similar issues to what I had.
I eventually gave up and started renting a seedbox so I wasn't just taking.