I'm having the exact same problem… :wall: For some reason this is the only site that I can't download from. Every once in a while a quick START/RESUME will get the torrent moving, but it doesn't work consistently. Once the file actually starts, it will finish, but it seem that just getting them started is the tricky part. Sometimes if I restart my client, all the 'Stalled' torrents will start downloading as if there were no problem at all in the first place. If I add more torrents from this site while those are DLing and connected to the tracker, they start right up normally, but if they finish and i go to get something else from gt.ru.... Forget it— Shit's broken again.

And I don't think it's "private" torrent sites, because I can download from other private sites just fine and this is the only one that's having this problem.

Fester79,
When you update your client, do you do it pretty much every time a new version comes out? Do you have a lot of torrents in your list tthat have been carried though to the next version of the client? We may end up having to just re-install and 'start fresh', I suspect.

@ballard1:

After all it's the uploaders who keep this site interesting and running.

ORLY? You might be providing files, but unless you continue to seed those files you aren't keeping anything 'running'.

@ballard1:

As much as I would love to download the occasional DVD-R… I can't do it because it would hit my ratio really hard.

So?

You really only need to keep your ratio above 1.2 (to keep 'PowerUser' status), right? As of me writing this comment you have 961.46GB uploaded, and can download about 86GB before you get there. That's about 20 DVD5s. And that's without uploading anything at all.

[Something to think about… The higher your UL and DL amounts go, the more leeway you have with your ratio. For instance, my ratio here is 1.221 and I can download about 100GB before I get to a 1.00 ratio. On another site, my ratio is lower (1.192), but I can download a twice that amount to get down to that 1.000 mark. I'm not trying to be condescending, it's just that a lot of people tend to focus solely on the ratio, and not really think about the numbers that [i]make up that ratio.]

@cumeaternc:

I am only guaranteed the size of my torrent upload.

This is actually all anyone is guaranteed, as far as the internet is concerned WRT torrenting. This site can only add perks and incentives to encourage behavior, along with setting ratio requirements. This is the same with any private tracker on the web. (It's just my opinion, but I happen to think "Thou shalt not complain when thou hast not been given extra download credit for a torrent" should be engraved on a stone tablet and passed down Mt. Sinai, that way many more than just cumeaternc would understand this universal constant more fully.)

@All… er, Some... err... whatever. You know if this applies to you:
The torrent protocol was designed to do one task well, and that task is to 'share a large file as quickly as possible to as many people as possible, using the least amount of bandwidth and the least amount of processing power'. All this whining about other people having better connections and better speeds is totally irrelevant when it comes to torrents. It's petty jealousy (and from a technical standpoint, is not constructive, but is destructive). And before you get the wrong idea, let your eyes wander to the left a bit and check out my average upload speed — yes, I'm jealous too.

Ballard1, in general I think your idea is a good one. I like it a lot, actually. However, instead of giving uploaders double the upload amount in upload credit it might be better to reward them through further seed-point bonuses instead. That way, people who are okay in terms of their ratio can choose between whether to use them to boost their own upload stats or to reward other members for sharing the pr0nz you like. Someone with a 6-point-something ratio needs doubled UL credit like they need another hole in their head, but if they have extra seed points they can spread 'em around.

Spintendo, you can still do this if you use utorrent. It's in the 'peers' tab down at the bottom. Granted, you have to actually connect to the torrent to see the details, but it's not as if you have to keep downloading it if you don't like the stats — just stop the torrent and/or delete it.