Quote from: goccat on March 28, 2018, 04:01:11 AM

I stood up a Linux daemon with 51339 open and synced nearly instantly. I stood up 2 windows wallets without 51339 and they both failed to sync until I forwarded 51339. You have a problem with your wallet and that's the primary reason why everyone here is complaining about a peers list.

A Linux daemon on a VPS will run by default in server-mode.

A windows-app on a Desktop-PC will be restricted by the system itself, it will by default not allow incoming connections.

Not even the newest windows bitcoin wallet does that. Grin

Once more:

It has nothing to do with your system, but whether you allow both incoming and outgoing connections, or ONLY outgoing.

If you are only "leeching" on other nodes, then at one point all available connections of all full nodes will be used up.

The solution is to not only leech but to also seed (open your port).