well I created coin.conf and coino.con and put them in the %appdata% directory for coino and also in the directory where the .exe file is and I still only have two connections

The file name is Coino.conf. Both of the names you just posted are incorrect
Also, with peers they do come and go as the people that own them can stop and start them at will. We only have 1 guaranteed node and that is 70.38.54.10 as we own this one
Regards
NB. Also the current progress on my new download is at 103 days left to catch up