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Originally Posted by brundles
That's not strictly true - the basic algorithm behind the protocol includes the fact that peers will choose which peers to communicate with based on the return speed. i.e. The higher the upload bandwidth you can guarantee to another peer the more chance there is of it choosing to upload back to you than someone else in the swarm.
The key point in there is 'guaranteed' - if you offer a high bandwidth but don't stump up with the goods as it were then you get choked and see very low download speeds. Hence the reason you should set the max upload speed in your client properly.
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Sounds like you got that from the docs.
It is FUD dude to make people set their upload limits high after all if we all started setting 1kB limits the torrent system would collapse.
Back in december when my 10meg was kickass I played with some p2p and set my upload to 5kB sec which is under 10% of my limit and was grabbing at 10mbit downstream. I had set something like 30 upload slots which were getting extreme low speeds of course
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Its connectivity that matters not speed, if you have 1 guy leeching of you at 30kB or 10 guys of you at a total of 10kB the latter will reap more awards.