Thanks.  That worked. I went from 3 connections to 31 real quick.  I always thought nobody was running nodes when it was struggling to connect.  Do you know if the Cryptopia CAP wallet is enabled?


Just to reCAP what I did:

I logged in to my router settings under Port Forwarding and set the following rule to the staking device(IP_address):
Destination Ports 7685
TCP Any -> 7685