>>27717Downloads do take a little while to start, especially when you have a small unity folder. I remember hearing that they won't start at all below some specific size, but I don't know if it's true or not.
It is more of a "forget about it and check back on the morning" type of P2P like Ed2k instead of something with permanent seeding like BitTorrent.
It does take a considerable while to connect to all nodes after every startup too. It's best to keep it running instead of opening it whenever you feel like downloading something if you want the quickest results.