Bah I'm confused with the nodes thing.

Started solo mining, reached 8 connections in an instant. Read the guide, says having 8 connections is bad and I need more. Couple hours of tinkering with my linux router and opening port 9911 for both TCP and UDP => getting 6 connections now. Tried adding some nodes to the primecoin.conf file, doesn't seem to help. Keeping the port closed gets me more connections, any tips?

Here's the peerinfo from debug window: http://tny.cz/ce42f425

I find it strange that from all the peers I'm connected to, none has "IPV4address:9911"

Edit: here's the getpeerinfo with port closed, very different looking peers: http://tny.cz/2ecf7789