Depends where the bandwidth bottleneck is. If the connection between your friend and you is faster than your individual connection to the swarm (eg. you are on a big LAN, like a university campus) then your answer is a simple "yes". If you are a single terminal (eg. ADSL in a private house) then the answer is "probably not much". It would be about the same if your torrent downloads are not speed limited, or even if they are, if there are enough seeds for you to max your bandwidth then there will be negligible difference. However if there is only a few seeds and they are limiting individual leechers to, say 10k/s then if you and 9 other friends can download unique separate fragments at that rate you can get it in 1/10th of the time, plus the time it takes for you all to ensure you're not missing bits or doubling up (IE there will be some overhead), plus the time it takes to then get the other 9/10ths off your friends assuming they don't cap the speed you can get the data off them.
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