Discussion about Guide for Starters at GayTorrent.ru

airliner

Thanks

You have any more tips to improve ratios?

There are three ways to improve your Ratio:

1. Seed torrents with a lot of leechers, or torrents with very few or no other seeders.

2. Upload a new torrent , make sure you use "Search" to prevent duplicates, and make sure that you are not seeding or leeching anything else until 3 or 4 others have snatched the complete file. (Read the rules!)

3. The easiest way to improve you ratio is to click on the "Donate" on the top blue stripe. Make a contribution to the site to help defray the hundreds of Euros (dollars) a month it costs to keep this site on the internet.

lashed

Hi there.

Joined today - great site!

I've downoaded my first torrent, it was 237MB and downloaded very quickly indeed.

I want to start off on the right foot but the upload rate is bad and therefore not uploading very quickly at all (0.008).

Are there any suggestions for improving this?

Also, do I need to get this upload balanced ratio wise before a 2nd download?

Finally, is there anywhere that the latest uploads are flagged so people needing to improve ratio can go and get seeded?

Thanks
Pete

aaliass

@lashed:

Are there any suggestions for improving this?

you can download another torrent that has a high number of "leechers" that way it will upload faster

@lashed:

Also, do I need to get this upload balanced ratio wise before a 2nd download?

nope…..but you must try to get to your "Current minimum ratio" (which you will find on your profile page) as soon as possible or your download rights will be taken away.....

@lashed:

Finally, is there anywhere that the latest uploads are flagged so people needing to improve ratio can go and get seeded?

there isn't a place for that per-say but the latest torrents come at the top of the list on the 'torrent page' when you click the "Browse" or "Search" buttons seen on the blue bar at the top of any page…..
-----> but i should add that the latest torrents will show up according to what you have set the default in your profile....
for example in your profile if you have not chosen 'music' to show up in your search results then it will not show when you go to the "browse" page.....

lashed

Thank you.

I'll get the hang of it - I'm used to Ratio rules, just need to find my feet.

Pete

aaliass

coolio ;D

also take a look at this - Minimum Ratio requirements for a better understanding of the ratio system on this site

blackmilk

I know these may sounds stupid but I really need to ask.

1. How to share or seed a file that I have already finish downloaded? Is it just leave it in BitTorrent client? I use Thunder to download.
2. What is the green pointed up arrow below the blue browser stand for?
3. What is the function of the bonus?

Thanks a lot!

Popper

Dear blackmilk,

1. Yes, keep the torrents running until you have for example reached a ratio of 1.00 (might not always be possible, other will do more instead)

2. The Green arrow Up on GayTorrent.ru indicates how many torrents you have active uploading (seeding), the arrow down how many you have active downloading (leeching).

3. This is a reward for people keeping seeding even having low or no upload rate. You get 0.5 points per hour of seeding and can exchange them against credits of upload to your statistics, i.e. improve your ratio. Click on your bonus on top and you will see.

Best regards
Uwe

raphjd

I know these may sounds stupid but I really need to ask.

Read my signature line.

blackmilk

Thanks Uwe and raphjd! :laugh:

andrams

hi all,

how do i "market" my seed?
also it still show visibility as "dead".

please help me. PM me.

thanks

klovescock

Guys Im reallly stuck! Basically my PC was down for a while and I could not fix my ratio and now my download rights are banned. So I could seed but I reformatted my PC to fix it and all my files are gone so I cannot do that! I tried re downloading torrents I downloaded before but it says my download rights are banned!! Does this mean I will never be able to use gaytorrent again :(? Please help!!

aaliass

no, it doesn't mean that

what it means is that you now have 2 options instead of 3

upload a new torrent to the site (run a search and make sure it isn't already here)
donate to the site

layon

Since the most stupid question is the one not asked… I read "The Starter's Guide to GayTorrent.ru" but still have some very very basic ones... so many thanks in advance for your answers!

I have a MacBook with OSX 10.5.7

Maybe I'm looking at the wrong places on the site but I cannot find out what exactly I have to do with the torrent files. They are downloaded to the "Downloads" folder on my disk. I leave them there... is that right?

I use "Acquisition" as my torrent client; it puts the movies also in the "Downloads" folder on my disk, from there I convert them to DVD or whatever I want. Then I put the downloaded originals on a backup hd which is not always connected to my Mac. I'm afraid this is wrong but am not sure; should I leave them, with the original filename, on a specific place on my disk?

Now I just learned that Acquisition is not a 'real' torrent-client... with it I cannot upload files. Is Transmission a good one?

raphjd

@ Layon

Have a look at this thread for which client to use with Mac; http://community.gaytor.rent/index.php?topic=381.0

Until you get more experienced with torrents, it's best to leave them in their original place until they are fully seeded. Also, depending on which client you decide to use, you should be able to tell it where you want to download the files to.

If you want to manually move the videos and keep them available for BTing, you have to tell your client where you moved them to and you must leave them with the same file name. If you no longer need them for BTing, then you can move and rename them, just make sure you remove the torrent file from your client, usually by right clicking the torrent in your client and selecting "remove torrent" or similar wording.

layon

Thanks for your help!

I'll look in the Mac-section for my other questions.

Proneffy

I created a torrent using Vuze, uploaded it, redownloaded it as instructed, and it started seeding according to the website. Then about an hour later it was listed as dead on the website and on my vuze programme its listed as queued. I tried redoing the whole process again and the same thing happened. I cant see what I am doing wrong, I have even stopped all the other transfers I have going. Can you help?

TwjT3NEc

@Proneffy:

I created a torrent using Vuze, uploaded it, redownloaded it as instructed, and it started seeding according to the website. Then about an hour later it was listed as dead on the website and on my vuze programme its listed as queued. I tried redoing the whole process again and the same thing happened. I cant see what I am doing wrong, I have even stopped all the other transfers I have going. Can you help?

Depends on limits set in your Vuze the torrents will queue when you have several torrents running at the same time.

Try stopping other torrents and see if it starts seeding again.

Popper

From a post in the Support / Guides and HowTo's section of the forum the setting which should be used:

Tools > Options > Queue -> Seeding > First Priority > A share ratio under [1:1], set the rest to ignore and uncheck Torrents with 0 Peers

and

Tools > Options > Queue > Seeding > Ignore Rules > uncheck Ignore torrents with 0 peers

trukr

From what I remember when I used Vuze it's normal for the torrent to sit there as "queued" until a leecher connects, then it will go active.

Popper

If our tracker would have the scrape support enabled…

Above is from your post on the "Scarpe error" in Vuze/Azureus and helps to start torrents without leecher, which is needed for uploading own new torrents, because these have no leecher until after approval.

The µTorrent/BitTorrent does that with the "out of box" settings and though queued torrents have the scarpe error, too, it is just displayed less prominent and therefore does confus less users.