oh, I am gonna shut my node down also, it maxed out at around 90 peers, running 82 right now. is there some chart somewhere that shows propagation times, ala
http://bitcoinstats.com/network/propagation/ ? that was fun to mess with.
was experimenting with it in late march and it coincided with some 30% drop on transaction propagation times for the days I put 'em up. started full time in mid-may. bitcoin.sipa.org/seeds.txt is more like 2 1/2 to 3 months, not 30d, lol.
was running four, but now just 5.9.24.81 full-time
if this is anything like bitcoin, peers with crap upstream clog the whole system... i could run bitcoind on my home connection (768kbps upstream) and when blockchain.info reported that i found a block ""first"", my upstream would be saturated for a good 3-5 minutes & essentially all from just the new block requests (used tcpkill on anyone trying to DL blockchain from me). i have timeout set to 100ms now to avoid as many of the home users as possible, makes it much smoother