Our client Zultrax runs both the Gnutella network as its own Zepp network.

On Gnutella we included a feature in our recent versions we are not so satisified with but it increases our speed significant.

Like any other Gnutella client Zultrax mentiones its client name in the header which it sends when a connection is made. We do not do that anymore. Instead we mention randomly either our own name, the name (and a imitation of its header) of another client randomly chosen or the name (and an imitation of its header) of the client where the contact is made with. This means that in about 50% of the cases Zultrax hides its identity and pretends to be another client.

Strangly enough this results in more succesfull attempts to make connections, more searchresults and faster downloads!!!!!

As far as we can see this can only mean that there must be a major re Gnutella client which give priority to other nodes on the condition that they use that same client.

In case you are also developing on a Gnutella client you might use this knowledge and pass it by the same way we did.

Did anyone else notice this phenomea?