If your are the ultrapeer yourself you still have some control over everything :

If you have 6 in the tab "connections to make"
LW will make 50 leaf connections and 6 Ultrapper or 0.4 conections .

So if you come against a Ultrapeer with say 50 leafs and only 2 other connections you're scrued .

But if you find a Ultrapeer with 50 leafs and +10 connections with enough bandwidht , youre in .

I'm running an ultra peer with about 40-50 leafs and 6 connections , my connection is 80% saturated with 100% peaks .
I'm getting very good search results .