im no tech expert just someone who has had theses issues in the past, you need to look in to you antivirus software settings and look for the fire wall settings, you should be able to browse for the dopecoin qt and add it as an exception, connections also reduce if you have more than one wallet open, i had verium and dope open and verium had all the connections
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In fact, yes, my firewall is good according to what you are telling.
The thing that I learned a long time ago was that the number of connection is not really so important
and does NOT affect the staking.
Also, I have 12 wallet staking simultaneously, with good number of connections for most.
Get good staking and even identic staking independantly of other wallets staking.
This is actually the way it should be.
My issue here with DOPE is that, even if i have connections, and wallet opened all the time,
it cannot be in sync now.... this is the issue.
I will probably delete all files except wallet.dat and start sycing from scratch....
IS THERE a BOOTSTRAP file available?