ok I need help here. I only have 2 connections on my wallet and I would like to add more but I don't know how. I am using windows. newest version.
The best thing to do is to make sure that your node is able to accept incoming connections.
It's hard to give step-by-step instructions because it's different for each router, but you need to make sure that port 31174 (TCP) is forwarded on your router to your LAN IP address. I'm not familiar with UPnP, but I guess enabling that on your router will make the port forwarding happen automatically.
Maybe someone more familiar with this stuff can help out. But the fundamental problem is we have too many peers attempting to make outgoing connections and too few peers able to accept those incoming connections.