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I am waiting on FedEx to drop off my Apollo II full node. Any tips on setting it up that you might have. Should I let the node populate the blockchain before doing anything else?

First thing, make sure both the MicroSD card and the NVME card are seated all the way before you even plug it in. Then after you get it up and running (preferably hard-wired with an ethernet cable) I would let the node sync up fully (could be several days) before trying to mine beyond ECO mode. Besides, you can't mine to your own node until it is sync'd completely - but you can pool mine, just stay in ECO until the node is complete. Anything higher than ECO during the sync really puts a strain on the system. That's pretty much it in a nutshell.

Here is the full getting started guide on the Futurebit website:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a9c84ac89c172bcf087f4c0/t/662173d150d84b057cb14192/1713468369163/FutureBit-Apollo-II-Guide.pdf

Cheers!

Thanks I will wait for it sync and yes i plan on using ethernet cable

I am glad you recommended checking the MicroSD card but its about 70% sync'd now. It shows 10/32 connections, but the instructions say it should go higher (to the 32 I guess), so will it not go higher until 100% sync'd or do I need to do something.

It's been suggested to forward to port 8333 on your router if you're not getting more than 10. Personally, I've never been able to get my Netgear router to actually accommodate my efforts in this regard (could be my router acting up or just me being stupid). However, I did manually add a few node addresses from https://bitnodes.io/ and after that I can at least can get 12-13. It's obviously a common problem as this issue keeps coming up here and simple port forwarding just doesn't seem to address it in every case. I should state that I don't forward via UPnP as I don't believe it's that secure. In any case, until I get a new router I'll just live with 12 connections.

Cheers!

Thank you PennyBit for the reply. I switched it over to my piggybacked Eero hoping it might change but it looks like i might need to manually add a couple as well. Can you tell me the steps in adding the other connections? I am thinking at the "Bitcoin node configuration" and if so do I just need to add the IP address of some local nodes?

Take a look at a post from Sledge0001 here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5492150.0

About 2/3 of the way down of his pics he gives a good example using the addnode=IPADDRESS and listenonion=0 commands

Cheers!

I wanted to thank you again for your help and give an update. After getting the blockchain totally sync'd I was still only getting 10/32 and sometimes 11/32. I added 7 nodes from bitnodes.io and was only getting 11/32. I had port forward on my Eero to 8333 but wasn't until finding where my port forward on my main modem was able to add the 8333 there and my Appllo started getting 32/32 nodes. For some reason, i can't access bitnodes.io anymore, I get a 403 forbidden notice, I am not sure what that is about?

Now I can thank you for your help! It never occurred to me to go into my modem and set the port forwarding as well as the router itself. BINGO!!! It worked! I have more connections now than I've ever had in the past.

With regards to you not accessing the bitnodes website anymore, I can only guess that it may be related to your browser cache. Try clearing that site from your cache and/or try accessing the site from a different browser and/or computer. I don't have a problem accessing that site after all the monkeying around I did with the router and modem.

Cheers!