Well I have not been on a dial up connection for ages and neither have you gamer ( using gnutella) , but based on feedback 56K users can still achieve speeds over 5k/s more then you think. Dial-up services vary in quality though so that is also a factor.

Anyway my point here is simply that dial-up users can enjoy Gnutellanet and getting over 3k/s is Not slim as you stated.