Why are your pools not connected to each other and the rest of the p2pools?
You mean as in nodes? I've got to configure connecting to each other, however the initial setup was solo and I've been really busy these past few days.
Regarding connecting to other p2pools I've read the wiki which states:
"you run multiple P2Pool nodes or have trusted friends that run P2Pool, to establish a constant extra P2P connection to them. "The word
trusted friends, to me implies that by connecting to other pools it may have an impact on the pool itself? Hence as I am not sure whether the other pools are as efficient I do not want it impacting the statistics of this pool, which is yielding very good results.
If anyone care to expand on this, please let me know - only reason to decide against was purely based on to keep the efficiency for your miners as best as possible.