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 leecher will keep trying to connect until it reaches its configured limit. So for a torrent with 10 seeders, you will certainly be connected to.
You can win over faster seeders by configuring your client to use TCP instead of UDP (µTP), and your operating system to an aggressive TCP congestion control algorithm like BBR.
If you do this you’ll saturate your upload and win over every other peer using µTP or cubic/reno TCP, even if the peer is very far away.