As a torrent seeder, does one’s max upload speed affect their likelihood of connecting w/ leechers? I know about port forwarding and all that jazz, but suppose a leecher adds a torrent with 10 seeders—does the leecher’s client give any sort of preferential treatment for seeders w/ faster connections or is it basically each seeder has an equal (in this case, 10%) chance of being the chosen one? In other words, do seeders w/ normie home internet connections have a disadvantage over those w/ the faster connections?
The downloader will make a connection to as many of them as possible. I believe it doesn’t care about the capabilities of the seeder at all as long as it has the piece it’s looking for.
Yes and no. Depending on your client I believe you can tweak the settings to avoid slow seeders if others are available (especially if you have a set max connections per torrent)
That’s not quite right ! When seeding on private trackers I sometimes do not go above 120kb/s (competition against highspeed seedboxes) while on public trackers I can seed as much as 20-40mb/s.