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Just received my Apollo II from Futurebit after waiting two months. $999 plus shipping.

I wanted to run my own node to support the botcoin network/community as well as have some privacy with my transactions, all the while having a lottery ticket to win 3.125 bitcoin every 10 minutes or so.

It was a noble idea, but this thing they sent me is VERY buggy and not working as advertised. I've been trying to download the completed blockchain to the node for a few days, but it crashes, etc. I got really far yesterday about 72% complete, but today now the unit is refusing connection: "warning Connection refused. Your node is not running."

I've scoured most of the 140+ pages in this forum. Reached out to futurebit (not holding my breath on that)... and now kindly asking if any of you got this same error and resolved it successfully.

All this to say, I'm kinda disappointed I'm going to have to put a lot of work in to resolving this. I overpaid to have it be easy... as time is money and I'm willing to part with my money to save time.

I've read that their return/exchange policy states only 14 days. So I'll give it a couple more days to resolve, else, I'm returning it and dusting off my old Etherium miner (please note, I got paid in Bitcoin BTC so I'm not a shitcoiner) to run as my node.

Running the latest v2.0.7
Have At&t fiber 1GB up and down.
Hardwired directly in to switch that is connected to EERO 6.
Saved a port with the Ip address, added the 8333 and have disabled it after reading that it conflicted with operation while downloading the block chain.
Have tried rebooting router, switch, and Apollo II. (Obviously)

The Apollo II can mine, but what's the point if I'm trying to solo mine to my own non-functioning node?

Any advice is appreciated, otherwise this baby is going back so they can make it someone else's problem.

Just know I had good intentions when I parted with my $1k for the last 2 months...

Do they not test this shit prior to sending it out? They had 2 months! Cheesy

Flashed it back to v2.0.6

Still no luck with the Node connection. Embarrassed

Then tried upgrading it back to v2.0.7 using the UI upgrade feature. Non-responsive.

No flashed it back to v2.0.6

Not sure what to do from here. Thoughts please?

Reformat the SSD: Settings/Extras.

This was suggested to me by FB support (after waiting a week for a response, of course) and it worked for me. Had the same issue: "Connection refused"

Thanks I just reformatted and it worked. It is now redownloading. Appreciate your help!

Unfortunately overnight the Apollo II unit gave me the connection refused error again. Requested an RMA.
Hope you all have better luck.

Hello, I’m having this exact same issue and I’m using a cat6 Ethernet cable

warning Connection refused. Your node is not running

I was able to get node to start syncing without showing the connection refused that it displays by formatting ssd. I’m now waiting on results. It’s currently at 46%…..edit- fast forward 6 hrs, and the issue occurred again with the hiccup at 50.84%.
I suspect a fault with the ssd. As thagrmango stated, I might purchase a better ssd.