Most cable systems have the ability to change your IP at any time. It isn't weekly or on some systems not even monthly but it does happen unless you pay for a static IP.

So, you could have picked up a "previously used" IP that was for someone else that was running Gnutella all the time. Remember these IPs are "recycled" because a cable company only gets so many.

Log your IP every day and let us know how often it changes, just for grins that is.

Does anyone know how a cable company can have 130,000 subscribers, each one with his own IP and some of them have TWO or more computers, each assigned their own IP? I have tested this and you can connect 4 computers and each one is assigned it's own "private" IP. I assume some companies will use special boxes to "share" a IP for one house, that will be interesting to see how Gnutella will be if everyone does that.

If you had a IP of say 211.245.XXX.XXX then you would get about 65536 max IPs, but how many cable companies can we support with this? If every cable company was on 211.XXX then we could only support 256 of them, and what about the rest of the net?