Did that and I only have 1 connection. Its been over 12 hours. This seems more difficult than necessary.
Here is my peers.dat
https://mega.nz/#!6M5HnRJJ!SJ0isBABdF6NBfTVgSiryV-3wMPYRqcsvmDmatxjg1QBe sure to open up the ports on your firewall , especially windows.
If your HBN Active network connection stay Low or you suffer from a lot of disconnects in your debug log.
As usual , we can blame Microsoft, the windows firewall is a strange creature, even thru HBN seems to work without making changes to the windows firewall , it seems to cause some issues.
Some Windows users may have trouble finding active connections or only are able to keep a low number active like 5 or 9 or the Number seems to rise and fall within a few minutes, instead of staying fairly stable.
Windows :
Click start, click control panel, click Windows Firewall,
Make a note on which network is connected Home/Work or Public
Then Click on Allow a Program or feature thru Windows Firewall , click allow another program, click browse , then go to the folder with Hobonickels-qt.exe , select HoboNickels-qt.exe , click open, click add ,
It should then be in the list of allowed programs with a check mark to the left and a check mark on the right side under home/work or public (you want it to be on the 1 that showed as connected), Click OK , and then reboot.
Next time you start the HBN client, your active connections can reach in the 20s.
so i definitely don't wanna let it die lol 
