Not really. The emphasis in freenet is on crypto and anonymous distribution / plausible deniability, not moving huge amounts of data. What parent says is that content gets easier to reach with more nodes compared to average FN content, not that it will (likely ever) be faster to download than with BT or similar.

Right, but in the best case (the content is stored on all neighboring nodes in FN) the only speed difference would be in crypto algorithms used and protocol peculiarities (handshakes, key exchange or something like this). I think? I mean, if the content is not further than one hop, the Freenet functions very similarly to torrent. Or am I mistaken?

Those "protocol peculiarities" are massive performance hogs.

More like torrent network where everyone uses TOR, I think.