Well, it seems things have changed. I remember when I had 10 or 20 up, I was able to seed a LOT better. Guess that doesn't matter anymore. So what's the trick? Even getting popular shows, that you know are gonna get grabbed like crazy, such as GoT, don't even get you ratio.
What you need to understand is called Port Forwarding. It has to do with accessing your router and allocating a specific port to be directed to your torrent client at a specific IP address. You can google it and find thousands of guides, but essentially you will first want to give your PC a static IP address. This makes it so that you can now tell your router that any time it gets a request from the torrent peers (which can be over a multitude of ports) the router will send it to a single specific port on a specific device. Otherwise, your router would have to try to connect to dozens/hundreds/thousands of different ports for each peer in the swarm. Now, any request gets directed to that one port, which Deluge is listening on (you'll configure Deluge with this port as well), and bam, you're connectable.
Makes me wonder. Are your ports forwarded properly? I see you mention this every few months, but only getting a few MB on any torrent is a prime example of not being connectable. Peers send requests, and your client responds to a few, but doesn't know how to keep up with all of them, so the peers eventually think, "Fuck this guy, he never responds to my calls!" and they all start ignoring you, and at that point you're fucked. I don't know if they actually keep a list of "bad peers" but it sort of seems like once you are labeled that way, they will only rarely even try you at all.
Void swooping in with the hard truths!! haha. Naw, last Christmas I downloaded a shit ton of Hallmark movies for the in-laws. Many of those hit at least 3/4th ratio, maybe a couple hit 1:1. Although I'm going to go back through and double check my ports, and see what's up. I know that I have DHT turned off, but wanna double check my port forwarding.
Yea, its above 1.00 but slowly, ever so slowly declining. I'm pretty sure my ports are fucked up and so I'll fix those and I'll be in ratio bliss!
I didn't even notice the fact that you have 75k bonus points. Shit, that's a fuckload. I have 113k and I've had an account longer, with a seedbox, but you really aren't that far behind. Every 10k is 120GB of upload credit, so unless you fall behind by more than a freaking terabyte, you've got nothing to worry about with all those points.
I believe (but could be wrong) that there wasn't a cap in the past, or it was much higher, which is part of how I got so many. I'm fairly certain the cap is 15 like it says right now, but there doesn't seem to be anywhere that shows the calculations either, so who knows.
Get an IRC client. I use pchat portable.
