I have 8 connections. How can I get more connections if this is not enough?
It could be you are still using one of older Terracoin clients, which had uPnP disabled. I suggest you to install newest version:
1. Exit client.
2. Download newest version from Terracoin website.
3. Unpack files (overwrite existing ones) to location where you have client installed.
4. Start client.
Let it run for a while, like 15 minutes, than check number of connections.
I did all the steps
1. exited client
2. Downloaded the new version the new Terracoin logo
3. completely removed all Terracoin files from the roaming folder and also the main Terracoin folder that had the client (i.d the exe files) (the only files I kept were the conf file and the wallet file.)
4. unpacked and ran the client for 15 min, but I still have only 8 connections.
Hmmm........something on my end isn't setup correctly. Troubleshooting is a pain.
but, thank you for your help again. I'm still confused as to why it's not working the way it should.
If you want incoming connections, and your router is not UPNP-enabled, you have to configure it to forward inbound port to the machine running your client.