BT Traffic Management 101
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There has been a lot of fuss over the new ratio requirements and even before that, so I decided to write this up. It's not perfect or complete by any means, but it will help you get and keep a decent ratio.
Before I begin, please have a look at the glossary I made for the site;
https://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?topic=562.0
While you are in the Guides/How To's section, please have a read of the other guides there. Many of them will help out quite a lot in getting and keeping a good ratio.
This guide is to show you how to get the best out of the site and get/keep a decent ratio.
The main factor is common sense when doing this. Don't just blindly follow this guide as it can cause other issues. {see below}
If everyone follows this guide, torrents will live for a long time and there will be no mad dash to get everything right away. This will in turn help everyone have a decent ratio and get the stuff they want.
General Practices
1. Limit the amount of active torrents you have to as few as possible. This will greatly speed up the time it takes to get and send files. Your computer, client and ISP all limit how many active connections you can have. When you have reached the maximum amount of connections, you are stuck and can't go any faster unless some of those connections drop and are replaced. Depending on your download/upload speed, start off maybe 2 torrents and see if they take up all of your bandwidth. If they don't, then add another and check again; rinse and repeat. Not to mention that the more active torrents you have, the more resources your computer will use, limiting what you can do while BTing.
2. Enable Encryption in your client. While your ISP may not actively target P2P, many others do. Doing this helps you get data transfered between you and others who are affected, more easily.
3. If you can afford it, get an external hard drive to keep older downloads on. I have three 1TB external HDs. Many/most home theater systems support self powered USB 2 external hard drives. Most also support the various mainstream video formats {avi, mpg, divx, etc} as well. The upside is no more discs cluttering up your house and massive storage to help boost your ratio.
Downloading and ratios:
1. I have only ever heard of a few ISPs that have equal up and down speeds and they cost a lot of money per month. One example I saw recently costs £200 a month vs the normal £30 a month. The normal ISP practice is for the download speeds to be 4 or 5 times faster than your upload speed. This means it will take much, much longer to seed back than it will to download the file.
2. If your ratio is in trouble, don't download anything new. Seed back what you already have taken. I can't tell you how many times I have seen people cry for help about their ratio while downloading several files. Tsk, Tsk
3. If your ratio is above the ratio requirement, but you want a boost, then set you max download speeds to something below your upload speed.
Don't Yoy-Yo your ratios. This means, don't build up a high ratio just so you can hit n run torrents for a while. This has bitten more than a few in the ass.
Uploading/Seeding
1. Keep an eye on your torrents. If you see a torrent with 50 seeders and 1 leecher, stop it and move on to a torrent that needs help. This will not only help you get a better ratio, it will also help others get files faster. There is a downside though. If everyone looks at the torrents at the same time, then it could lead to the formerly over seeded file becoming under seeded. This is why I said the main factor in this is common sense.
Some may call this hit n running, but I call this traffic management.
2. Turn off/deselect DHT, Peer Exchange and all that other bullshit in your client. These allow people to leech from you who aren't members of your tracker, thus sucking up your bandwidth. DHT is automatically disabled here, but it's not disabled on a lot of sites.
3. DO NOT limit your upload speed to some low bullshit kbps as many have been doing, especially if you are the only seeder. This will make a lot of people not want to get that file, thus giving you no upload ratio. Not to mention it's F'ing rude.
4. Remember that in a perfect world, it will still take 4 or 5 times longer to seed back than it will to download. There are a lot of factors that can make it take even longer.
5. A good reason to have a bit of a ratio buffer is if your computer dies and you lose stuff.
6. Regularly check to see if the videos you have downloaded in the past are still on the site. If not, then upload them again as new people will probably want them. If you do this, make sure when you search, make sure you include "including dead" in the search as the seeder may have a connection issue at the moment you looked.
7. DO NOT download a file and rename it just so you can upload it again. This will get you a warning at the very least. Not to mention it doesn't gain you anything you wouldn't get from seeding the torrent with the original name, as you are seeding either way.
8. If your upload is rejected, the moderator will tell you why. The main reason for rejected uploads is bad/missing descriptions and/or pictures. Correct whatever it is that the moderator tells you and your upload will be approved.
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Hi! Thanks for all the great information. I'm fairly new to the torrent business, so I have a question regarding downloading. I looked around to see if this issue had already been addressed but I didn't see any posts. (Or maybe I didn't know where to look…)
I understand there are different factors that affect how long a torrent will take to download. Sometimes it finishes in 5 or 10 minutes; sometimes I've waited a couple of days for torrents to complete. I always leave them open for quite awhile after I finish downloading (ideally much past the 1.5 mark, but sometimes if there are no leechers and I've had it open for a week I will stop it...), however- what should I do if it looks like the torrent won't ever complete? What's the protocol?
Right now I'm downloading a movie that only has one seeder, and one leecher (me, of course). utorrent goes back and forth on "estimated time", sometimes a few days, but mostly it says up to a year, or infinity. I know the download will depend on the seeder's bandwidth,etc, but if I've waited, say, a week and it looks like it's only up to 5 or 10%, am I allowed to bail on it before I've fully downloaded? Also, since no one else is leeching but me, the ratio is still at 0%. That will also affect my overall ratio, which I don't like since I want to maintain a good balance.
Any suggestions/comments/words of advice? Thanks in advance! Cheers.
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am I allowed to bail on it before I've fully downloaded? Also, since no one else is leeching but me, the ratio is still at 0%. That will also affect my overall ratio, which I don't like since I want to maintain a good balance.
Yes you are, but then you won't be getting the video, so if you don't mind loosing it then that's ok.
We don't expect every member to have a 1:1 ratio on each torrent. Sometimes you can have a 1:10 ratio, other times it might be 1:0 that's fine, it's how torrents are. If you like an older torrent you're bound to have a 1:0 ratio.
And you've anyway got a very good ratio so you don't need to worry about seeding it if no one else wants it.I suggest you just leave it active in your client, it isn't going to do any harm, and let it download in it's own time.
Also, you can use the "Request Reseed" option at the bottom of the torrent page and see if others start seeding as well.
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OK! thanks for the super quick response!
Cheers!
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I noticed that near the beginning of the discussion is a link to the glossary that appears to have changed. Just FYI
This appears to be a current link to the glossary that was being referred to
https://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?topic=562.0
Hope this helps (and hope my edit and format is OK) -
Thank you, initial post edited accordingly
