@b779a Ok! thank you so much, gonna check that
Yeah the weirdest thing - I think! - is that it seems to work fine with torrents other than those from GTRU. Its only with torrents from here that it just doesn't start downloading

That would lead me to believe that there is a firewall of some kind in place. (NOTE: Firewalls can block based on NAMES or IP addresses...)

So, for "public tracker" torrents, your ISP can detect you're use of torrenting with that tracker, block it, and there are a dozen more to take its place. The "list" of public trackers are different NAMES as well as IP addresses...

But GTRU is a "private tracker" - so it your ISP decides to block the NAME tracker.gaytor.rent - our only tracker - then you may be SOL. The GTRU tracker is actually behind a service that's designed to "protect" against "attacks" on single IP addresses (CloudFlare) ... so, IP-level blocking probably wouldn't work...

So, if we assume that the block is by name, the fix for that is easy, and is actually a recommended setting to anyone who doesn't want your ISP tracking your every movement on the Internet:

• Change your default DNS service!

Recommended settings (can be made in your local router, but I prefer to override in my Windows or Linux clients themselves) is to force your DNS server to one of the following. (These are MY favorites - there are others!)

• 1.1.1.1 & 1.0.0.1 - Owned by CloudFlare
• 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4 - Owned by Google
• 9.9.9.9 & 149.112.112.112 - Owned by Quad9

Also-Rans (one reason I like the above is the ease of remembering the IP addresses... I'm a computer consultant, so I have to enter these ALL THE TIME, so easy-to-remember is a big plus for me... maybe not for you...)

• 84.200.69.80 & 84.200.70.40 - Owned by DNSWatch
• 208.67.222.123 & 208.67.220.123 - Owned by OpenDNS
• 4.2.2.1 - 4.2.2.4 - Owned by Level3 (purchased by Level3, and unlike others, does not promise privacy).

Use this link to re-configure your Windows system to use specific DNS servers.

In order to see if you have port fowarding go to Options > Setup Guide, then click the "Run Tests" button. If it says the port is open then you're all set and can't really do anything else to improve your peer finding.

If port fowarding in not enabled, then go to Options > Connection and make sure "Enable UPnP port mapping" and "Enable NAT-PMP port mapping"are both checked. If they're not checked then please do that. If they ARE checked, then you probably have an issue with your router, and that's a bit too tricky to diagnose without somone actually looking at your router settings.