By this testing (
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=13286.msg50327#msg50327 ) I have concluded that my ISP is limiting my connection to approx 56.4 KB/sec [as it looks like] per IP - I have 8 IP subnet. so in theory I may go up to 8 * 50=400 KB. The total throughput of my connection to the ISP is 3 Mbit so there is still a lot of sufficient headroom for improvement .
In essence if I attach several IP's to outWire then the throughput of
say IP1+IP2+IP3 is larger than IP1+IP2+IP3->NAT'ed esmith -> outWire
Also the system is AthlonXP1.6 with sufficient RAM so that should not be the problem as well (except in the case the NIC card and or it's driver is not on par)
The idea would be to have acceptable advert exchange (say not in 6 hours but in 1 or even les)
does anyone have idea how can I scatter / gather exteral communication - like a "multiple paired/parallel VPN"?
Also what would be the most efficient methof of transfering large files - say 1GB or more?