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?
No (*actually yes).
It’s your round trip ping, how quickly your seeding device responds to some leeching devices request that determines weather or not you end up sending a chunk out to them.
Of course, aside from people on satellite every high bandwidth connection (measured in millions or billions of bits transferred per second) will also have lower latency (measured in increasingly small fractions of a second).