I cant get a wallet to sycn, with a fresh installs both on both Win and Unix machines

I have nodes that will connect, only to disconnect never starting to download the chain.

I am sourcing the wallets from git - RangaBoom/CrocodileCash

I am using nodes from Cryptohub with addnode in the conf, & have the port open in the firewall (i have ck with open ports)

Has anyone recently tried making the wallet with success?

Thank you for any advice in advance,