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Configure Ratio Cheater

Ratio Cheating in leech mode

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The upper pane (which is highlighted in red in the above screen shot) is the main configuration pane of the Ratio Cheater.
lower ratio and upper ratio are used to generate a random ratio.
then upload amount will be reported to the tracker as below,
  • if you have selected download mode,
    • modified upload amount  = random ratio * downloaded amount
  • if you have selected upload mode,
    • modified upload amount  = random ratio * uploaded amount
Ratio Cheating in seed mode

above equations are not applied for seeding torrents. for seeding torrents, ratio cheater will report the true upload amount to the tracker until you select the seed mode from the bottom pane. (see the below screen shot)

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if you select the seed mode, you can select an independent random ratio for seeding torrents. this random ratio does not affect to the leeching torrents and the random ratio which is generated for leeching torrents in upper pane does not affect to the seeding torrents.

Configure External Proxies

Using this feature you can overcome a major disadvantage of setting "127.0.0.1" as the proxy server of your torrent client for the ratio cheater. Enabling "Use External Proxy" option (see the below screen shot) you can use a proxy server for all active torrents or you can use individual proxy server per each torrents via a pre-configured file.

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use a proxy server for all torrents
  • Select "Use this for all" radio button and enter your Proxy URL and port in the text boxes respectively.
use an individual proxy per torrent
  • find your tracker url for the torrent which you want to set an external proxy
  • Select the information between two slashes (see the below screen shot)
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  • Select "Use a file" radio button from the ratio cheater and click Open button (This will open a text file named proxies.txt)
  • Enter your proxy server in to the file as below format
    • tracker_information|proxy_url:port 
      • The line that you should enter in proxies.txt according to the screen shot is, tracker.abcdef.com:1234|your_external_proxy_URL_for_this_tracker:port_of_the_external_proxy