@John Roberts; You sure seem to be doing all the right things, and thanks for that, but perhaps there is a technical issue that is hampering your efforts to maintain a good ratio.
I would search some of the "port forwarding" and "firewalled" help threads here to see if you may have a technical issue that prevents your upload speed to be all it could be.
Here's a good place to start:
http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/...ad.php?t=42590
Good luck!
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