Hello,
that makes sense because big chans have lots of users.
If a single user sends a average of 500 chars (bytes) by minute (quite normal) then you will receive > 1000 * 500B = >500000B/m
now if you have at least one more channel like that open you will have
2 * 500000B/m = 1000000B/m / 60 = 16,6kB/s
if you have a slow connection and a very demanding game, your situation is perfectly natural
p.s this are only average calculations (if you have guys sending publicity this gets a lot bigger)