Someone just sent me 1.234 coins, so I guess I'm on the correct blockchain, and things are working now. (although I went to send the 1.234 back, but the from address is 'unknown'?)
To me it seems impossible. I never got more than ~10 connections with SMC, typically 6~8.
You are limited to 8 connections if you are behind NAT, but if you forward the ports like I have, it will go up to, I think, 125. I have 40 atm (I set it to 1024 in the conf on another coin once to see how many I could get, but that just crashed the client
