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Originally Posted by joujoujou

Do you have external IP from your ISP? If not, and/or you see "firewalled" thing below your ratio, that could be the reason. Other thing to consider - what torrent client do you use? Did you try another one? Some tiny setting might have been accidentally changed causing problem you mentioned.

Thanks for your input. Much appreciated.

I'm not getting any "firewalled" warnings. That doesn't always mean there aren't issues.

My completely uneducated opinion is that my upstream pipe is just not very good and I'm getting passed over.

I tend to get stalled with around a 40% share, or less despite leeching peers. Overall, I have ratio to spare, but if it is constantly going down, eventually I will use up my stock from the olden days.

I've always used Vuse.... since it was called Azureus, so I just stick with that. I might try another client. That had not crossed my mind. I don't have any other issues with Vuse, though.

I have what seems to be a fairly extensive array of settings with Vuse that could be applied, if the TTD tracker preferred one thing over another, but, as I mentioned, with a different tracker I'm approaching 1:1 more quickly, and occasionally even exceeding it.

I guess it's just a gamble with regard to timing and popularity of seeds.

Take it easy