Well, yes, it does make sense. And I appreciate your input. However, I failed to describe the problem, or what I believe to be a problem, appropriately. As an ultrapeer. I connect lets say, roughly 50 users. Half of them are leafs, and half are ultrapeers. Initially about 4 outgoing connections are made. All but 1 drops after 10 minutes or so. At one point in time, it was reversed. All connections but one were outgoing. My question is not as pressing as some others, but I would like to benifit the network as much as possible.

I have another issue with about 50% of my uploads being terminated less than 30% of the way through, with the status "completed". But perhaps this is better addressed to a different thread.