My testing with Cloudflare turned off (between 3am and 7am) showed no difference in anyone's connectable status (aka firewalled status). If Cloudflare is off during any other time, the site won't stay up more than a few minutes before becoming overloaded and the web server and tracker crashes.
My observation is that ones connectable status with TTD is not that useful in telling if you can connect with peers. I covered it in this post:
http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/...11#post3223811
Don't worry about your ratio. The current policy is that we need folks who are connectable to peers to seed gigs (otherwise bittorrent doesn't work). The ratio is not enforced. It essentially an honor system where you aim for 1:1. Those with better connections should aim for 4:1 to make up for those unable to seed. This is not a free-pass for hit-and-run.
I hope to update the FAQ soon with this info.
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