Quote from: Cassey on January 11, 2016, 09:08:52 PM

Quote from: windpath on January 11, 2016, 08:56:34 PM

Quote from: Cassey on January 11, 2016, 05:09:16 PM

Still concerned about the number of connections being low. Any thoughts on how to encourage more of them?

Welcome!

Be sure port 9333 is open for inbound connections, if it already is be patient... The inbound peers will come

As an aside, 256 is an insanely high number of peers, not much benefit from that many peers... We limit our node to 35, 25 inbound and 10 out...

Thanks. Somehow I missed that port reference from the guide I was using to install. I had 9332 open, but not 9333. It is now opened and dnatted to my p2pool VM. Not sure it matters but I'll restart the p2pool just to be safe. I'll drop max connections some while its down.

you do not need to bind with every existing node. I run my node satisfied with 3 out 1 in connections and relaynode by Matt. I use github bitcoind with no conf change with <0.2s gbt latency (0.165s daily average just now, monthly average 0.188s) and github p2pool 15.0-11 keeping both in last version.