Faster Gnutella Connections
 

Anyone know if you can make a faster Gnutella connections behind a NAT in which you do not have access to the NAT device? We have a 100mb connection coming into our building even though it is always a little lower, on Gnutella clients like Limewire and Bearshare it will tend to only give connections like 300 or so even if 14 to 30 are all going at once.

Let me explain the network in a little more detail. Our district office has a 100mb fiber Internet coming trough, going to it's 4 branch buildings by four fiber connections. Then goes to router and switch closets in the branches.

Is this a NAT issue or is it that most people on the Gnutella network are slow?

I dont understand your numbers, but technically the following could increase overall speed if individual computers are throttled out of your building (rare).

FIre up 5 computers on limewire, all downloading the same thing.
Set up a 6th computer, manually set the hosts to be the ip address of the other computers you have set up, allow partially download file sharing on all boxes, theoretically the 6th box will download from the partially downloading other computers, meaning you get a bit of a shotgun hit from 5 throttled boxes with a potential increase in speed on the 6th box.

This is only theoretical, and if it works is only likely to be a minor increase in speed, its not like you have to sit and watch the download occuring, you could try something novel, like wandering off and doing some "work" for a few hours and leave the downloading to its own devices! :)

I mean
 

Well I mean it will only download like 300kb/s max when the network is capable of 100mb or 100 mega bits per second. Which I believe is like 12800kilobytes per second. Even downloading 30 files at once still only gets me like 300kb/s so I was just wondering if maybe I try to use the main Internet gateway as my gateway of choice instead of using a router that conects to the gateway.
But I am not sure.

If your getting 300kb/s you would not do much better as an average. Some files you may score 14 hosts on high speed connections not servicing other downloads, but it would be rare.

Oh I see. SO appearntly it's all about whatr the other people have. So if I only get like 300kb/s total for 30 files downloading at once, it has to do more with the people I am downloading it from, then me right?

Not exactly, you can download from a set number of hosts for each download, (the software governs this based on your internet speed, I think the top is 14 for a Pro version, but dont quote me on that) That is probably the most limiting factor for a high speed internet connection getting a particular file.

If you are downloading 30 different files, potentially from 14 hosts each, you could get a lot higher speed.

However why so eager to download so many at once? there are a lot of psuedo Nazi's who watch their downloads like a hawk, browsing the machine of the person downloading from them, if they think you are not sharing enough, or leaching (IE download several files from them with little to offer in return) they will can your connection. Probably only worth starting so many seperate downloads just before knock off, or a weekend, that way you will not incure the wroth of these "psuedo Nazi's" to often :)

Be patient you will get what you want!

I would say there is a NAT firewall if I DL 5 files I will get 750KB/s to 800KB/s
Most business use NAT firewalls on their routers a large # of them block P2P programs. Just fell lucky you can DL at all.

Sometimes I get 700-800 but rarely. We normally get that when sending files between machines. I wonder if they have something bogging down the speed. They probably do. But then again their filter has been down for so long and the adult content filter has been down also.

Probably are maxing out their bandwidth capabilities. Which is a good reason to start limiting p2p activity. After all they pay for it. :D