GT.ru seeding just NEVER ever works in all my 8 years as a member.
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I've been a member now for something like 8 years and I've enjoyed the many great benefits that I have recieved from GT.ru over that period. I've also done my part as a member too, having post over 120 all new content torrents in the past few years - that have been downloaded over 21,000 times by other members…
I HATE to even bring this topic up because I've received such absolute outrage from GT.ru for even suggesting that there ay be a flaw in the GT.ru torrent model. I'm sure I'll take another thrashing for bringing it up again... but recently I ran some tests that indicate a GREAT DIFFICULTY IN THE ABILITY TO SEED. I just find it IMPOSSIBLE to seed at least a 1.0 ratio of content I download.
After STRUGGLING FOR YEARS WITH LOW SEEDING I decided to run some tests and found it's virtually impossible to do any significant seeding - and I've tried EVRYTHING ove the past 8 years as a member. I was not even able to seed enough to attain a 1.0 seed ratio on what I download. So, I ran a series of tests in the past 3 weeks seeding nothing but GT.ru torrent traffic (BTW I'm happy to share the data and settings used - it's detailed- so I'm just going to concentrate on the findings in this post).
I seeded a 50% combination of seeding ˜25+ of my own, all new content torrents (MOT) (they enjoyed modestly popular - being downloaded over 2,000 times during just the test peiod alone), mixed with a 50% combination of popular low seeder/high leecher torrents that had at least a 2:1-4:1 seeder/leecher ratio at the time of downloading (these ratios dropped on some torrents (HSLL), for which I had >1 in 2 to 1 in 4 odds of becoming a seeder for any/all of those 30+ HSLL torrents (odds dropped over time but they were still popular for most of the test period).
I kept uTorrent just these 50 GT.ru torrents 24/7 for the entire 3-week period downloading and seeding. 25 of those torrents were MY OWN NEW CONTENT TORRENTS (MOC), and despite them being download over 2,000 times durin that same period, they BARELY seeded more than 1.20 ratios for me [with the exception of 1 TOTAL FLUKE torrent that got endlessly stuck uploading - which never happens]. FOn top of that I downloaded 30+ HIGH SEEDER POTENTIAL TORRENTS [all of which I STARTED WITH a 1 in 2 up to a 1 in 5 chance of seeding (again for that same nonstop 24/7/3-week seeding period) and they only got 0.00 up to a whopping 0.037 seeding ratio that whole time. 3 out of all 55 of those moderately popular torrents barely eeked out a 2.0 or higher seeding ratio (and again statistics show these torrents were downloaded THOUSAND OF TIMES during that period. Errors in the system that stood out was the 1 FLUKE SUPER TORRENT that seeded 650+GB yet never complete 1 upload ever…and another one of my own new uploads that at one point showed 55 seeders yet according to uTorrent I had 0.67 seeding ratio the entire time - on my own torrent. How did those 55 seeders even get the torrent to seed if I never even uploaded it completely ONE TIME.
All I'm saying - and all my data for the entire 3-week test prove that seeding even a 1.0 ratio is next to impossible - even on a popular torrent with 24/7/3-week seeding session. That just can't be right. (I'm happy to share my settings, data and screenshots of uTorrent and my Router traffic meter that prove what I'm saying - it's all just too much info to put in this one post).
In the end - with the exception of the 1 super fluke torrent, the vast majority of all my 50 PLUS COMBINATION OF MY ALL NEW TORRENTS AND THE 30 HIGH SEEDER POTENTIAL TORRENTS all only achieved a 0.00 to at most a 1.3 seeding ratio on average in three long weeks of non-stop seeding! Sadly, that's the best average I've had in my full 8 years as a member. I actually just got frustrated and at one point just STOPPED SEEDING altogether. The only way I maintain any sort of acceptable ratio is beacuse I've created over 120 somewhat successful torrents (22,000 downloads) and I no so subtly beg for bonus points in each of the torrent descriptions and then cash those in for seeding credit. Otherwise, I would have gotten the boot a long time ago becuase I simply CAN'T MAINTAIN A PROPER SEED RATIO NO MATTER WHAT I TRY. An I've tried absolutely evertyhing, and every setting combination, and dowlnloading high potential seeder torrents not becuase I want them - but just to hopefulle get seeding credit - which NEVER WORKS.
BTW Just for Sh*Ts and giggles, in the last 24 hours of my 3-week seeding test I added about 50 MAC-TORRENTS and 20 KICKASS Torrents and 30 PirateBay torrents (most of which had just 1 seeder and 1 leecher) and NEARLY EVERY ONE OF THOSE GOT ME A SEEDING RATIO OF 5.0 OR MORE PER TORRENT IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS.
Got to go. BTW LUV LUV LUV the benefits of GT.ru and I'm glad to do my part by making good new torrents, becuase seeding sure as heck won't get me anywhere. Much thanks to the mods and staff of GT.ru for all their help over the years, but something somewhere is wrong - either with me or the seeding credit system.
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If you are having trouble receiving upload traffic with the torrents that you have seeding, this is likely not because of a "flaw" in the tracker, but rather, is caused by not forwarding the correct port in TCP and UDP from your router through to your computer. See, without the port that your torrent client uses being forwarded through to your computer, you will end up with the EXACT issue that you are describing, where seeding becomes incredibly difficult.
Also, if you are using a VPN, you need to be sure that you are either using the port that they are forwarding (as a number of providers/servers only forward ONE port), or that you are using a server that forwards ALL ports. This is a very critical part to being able to seed.
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Yes, I admit I was having some port and VPN issues. Ironically, I got the HIGHEST SEEDING SPEEDS EVER when I had it all set up wrong. I ususally seed 5-50kb/s when I had it all set up wrong and a CLOSED PORT I was seeding at 1.2MB/s Go figure.
BTW I had correctly forwarded my ports but whenever I used an OpenPort confirmation tool (canyouseemeknow.org) it always said the port was closed and the light in uTorrend was RED or YELLOW - NO INCOMING CONNECTIONS, yet for some strange reason that ONE SUPER FLUKE new content torrent I seeded for two-weeks - some 650GB+ of data. I later found out it just got hung up and everyone who wanted it (a lot of people) they could only download to 99% and then it would hang up. The whole thing eventually errored out and died. I had a FEW hung up torrents and several I tried to download yesterday also show that they've been seeding for WEEKS with 25 leechers and 1 seeder and 0 successful uploads.
Another oddity (after I fixed the open port issue) was two of my own torrent uploads which indicated just about a 0.67 seeding ratio after seeding non-stop 24/7 seeding for three weeks (yet these torrents had been downloaded over 200 times) - then today one of them had 47 seeders yet it showed a 0.67 ratio - somehow 200 people dowloaded my torrent, 22 of which were actively seeding my torrent, yet my upload ratio after three weeks was not even 1.0. So If I never even uploaded it, how did 200 people download it?
BTW Finally fixed most of my port forwarding issues. I had correctly forwarded the port at the router but I called tech support on the router because uTorrent always had a red - no connections status (despite seeding for weeks at 1.2mb/s (the fastest speed I ever achieved). Anyway they discovered I had one I{ address coming IN from the cable and the ISP supplied modem had a DIFFERENT out put IP address. The router folks said you'll never get an open port with two different ip addresses - so after 3 home visits and many tech support calls from my ISP we actully fixed the port issue. I now oficially have a confirmed open port and uTorrent has a green light - but unfortunately my upload speeds are 0-10k/s at the most. Again, go figure.
BTW I only have these issues on GT.ru…tried to seed over 60 all new and high seeder potential torrents 24/7/for three weeks, and never got over a 2.0 ratio on any of them (except the 1 fluke torrent that got stuck). the last day of my test I downloaded some 30 torrents from both KICKASSTORRENTS, MAC-TORRENTS, and PirateBay (for all but one day of my 3-week seeding test was only GT.ru traffic) - but interstingly 25 of those 30 torrents from other sites all had seeding ratios of 4.0-15.0 in less than 24 hours.
Something is right about my set up if I could upload 650GB to GT.ru on the one fluke torrent and 30 OTHER TORRENTS to 4.0-15.0 seed ratios in less than 24 hours.
Thank you for the information on specific ports open on the VPNs I will check that out. MOST of my 3 week test period was done without any VPN. I've been using two different VPNs (at different times) in the several days since my test period ended and they don't seem to have any affect on my upload speed one way or another. No special port forwarded or anything. Never knew you had to do that. When I did have the VPNs in the mix they each worked beautifully but one kept killing all communications on my MAC which is why I dropped them and signed up for a different one. It works beautifully now to. It connects right through a direct interface built into the control panel of my Netgear Nighthawk router. It protects all wifi connections (SmartTV, Kodi, NEtFLIX, iPhones, iPads, 6 macs, 2 pcs, etc.) in the house at the router level - no software needed on any of the devices. Works fantastic - no special port forwarded.
