Let it burn

Since toad gave tacit approval (or at least apathy) here are the two main patches from Frost. Apply and watch the network wither and die, or eat crow and spend months arguing about why it works.  I used the less insane seeming values from mmaalfdks for requeststarter delay reduction... if the network burns to the ground with those values, oo's original values should be far worse.
Should this be 2500 ms since that's the worst case speed of a 10 KB/s upload node?  For now I say leave it since, "let it burn"