Quote from: jobnotfound on August 09, 2014, 09:40:13 PM

Quote from: Xosihc on August 09, 2014, 07:20:36 PM

Completely random question but is there any significance to the number of "active connections" displayed within the wallet? I am often between 2-5 connections and was wondering if it means anything? Perhaps more connections = greater chance of staking faster?

Any response is appreciated.

Not sure if you solved this problem, but I was having the same issue and now have over 31 active connections to the network.

The issue for me was with my wireless router settings:
Try this first.
1) check your router config/administration to see if UPnP is Enabled or available. Restart router/wallet/pc.
This may solve your problem.

Also check to see if you have a vericoin.conf file set up and using a text editor, see if the following supernodes are present in plain text.
addnode=supernode.vericoin.info
addnode=supernode2.vericoin.info
addnode=supernode3.vericoin.info
addnode=supernode4.vericoin.info
addnode=supernode5.vericoin.info

For me (linux/ubuntu) I also had to
2) manually set my IP address out of the DHCP range (was 192.168.1.1 through192.168.1.200) I manually set to 192.168.1.201 as an example.
3) enable port forwarding for port 58683 in router to this IP address.

I would assume it's my router before anything else. I wasn't really complaining about it being a problem as much as I was just curious as to what these numbers mean. According to Socal's response it doesn't really benefit in any way other than having a more secure network. The question I was wondering is would having more connections = faster staking = more money?? Which by my understanding is no. If that's the case than I don't care =)

I do appreciate the feedback though - I'll look into my router settings and see if I can speed things up

Thanks!