Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

You definitely have a disadvantage with a slower connection. Faster connections will always have preference. This is intentional and desired, usually by everyone involved. As a leecher, I certainly want my client to connect to the fastest sources it can to download the torrent as quickly as possible. As a racer, I want the same. The only injury in this case is to people with slow connections as their only source of "upload credit" trying to earn "ratio" (something which has nothing to do with the bittorrent protocol itself and is an invention of private tracker communities carried over from the days of ratio FTP sites).

Good trackers using ratio as a requirement will recognize that these folks are put at a significant disadvantage, but are still doing their part and providing value by long term seeding and will find another way to reward them, typically with bonus points of some kind. Shitty or new-user-hostile trackers won't (you know who I'm talking about) but that's their choice and if you have you mind set on participating there, you might be much better off renting a seedbox at first until at least you get your ratio up to a level where you're comfortable.