David,
I know this is not your point...and I am sure this will not be viewed favorably by the IT cognoscenti, but in a weird way, that is another advantage of our shoestring P2P networks. When my "server" goes down, it takes about 10 minutes to use any of the other machines on our network to step into that role.
And while I am off on a P2P bender...my 29 gigs of II open in a flash. I am totally willing to accept the possibility that I have just been really lucky, but it seems to me that most (if not all) of the II slowing is occurring on servers, not P2P networks. I have no idea why (or even if that is really true)...
