Download/write speed very slow

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I've mounted my external ext4 partition via uuid in fstab, though there's a 10gb ntfs partition on the same HDD.

I'll disable the automount and see if there's any difference, though it seems to be a cpu issue in my case. Transmission in daemon mode maxes my connection without a problem, while there's still a cap on usenet speeds..the 3.2mb I mentioned.