Topic: How many connections are you seeing on your Bitcoin client? (Read 12457 times)
55 Right now...
i have 125 
Until I opened up port forwarding it was at 8, afterwards its 100+ (113 currently). I would recommend people open up port forwarding, connections are much quicker and blocks seems to download quicker.
I've had similar experiences where I restarted the client because it would not connect and it almost immediately showed connections 
. I would love to see if someone had an explanation for this phenomenon. 
. I would love to see if someone had an explanation for this phenomenon.
I can see about 48 now... it seems to be steadily going up for myself over time.
Here's a fun trick (that will blow your mind the first time you see it!)
Quickly shut down your bitcoin client... and start it back up again...
It should almost immediately inform you that you have ~100+ connections... WOW!?!?
But I assume that it uses cached connections from the previous load... until it can find new connections and delete the old ones... which is why it does this.
Gavin/anyone care to explain?
Here's a fun trick (that will blow your mind the first time you see it!)
Quickly shut down your bitcoin client... and start it back up again...
It should almost immediately inform you that you have ~100+ connections... WOW!?!?
But I assume that it uses cached connections from the previous load... until it can find new connections and delete the old ones... which is why it does this.
Gavin/anyone care to explain?
after solving my port 8333 problem i have 42
Search google for "bitcoin fallback nodes" and you will get a wiki page with a list of stable IP addresses that you can use. Then start your client with -nolisten to reject incoming peer connections, -noirc to not bother listing on the irc channel so there won't be as many clients trying, and -connect=ip.address two or three times to specify the fallback nodes you wish to use.
Great, thanks.
Search google for "bitcoin fallback nodes" and you will get a wiki page with a list of stable IP addresses that you can use. Then start your client with -nolisten to reject incoming peer connections, -noirc to not bother listing on the irc channel so there won't be as many clients trying, and -connect=ip.address two or three times to specify the fallback nodes you wish to use.
I'm in back of boondocks on a 45km wireless link (max 500 Kbps down) and if I open up to all connections, which I need to just make a node connection sometimes, it gets to >100 in no time and swamps my connection ... (10 Gbyte limit per month).
Anybody want to PM me some IP's I can point at to reliably get a connection without having to drown in bitcoin traffic? (I think there is something in client to that in conf file isn't there?)
edit: ooops, meant Kbps not Mbps
Anybody want to PM me some IP's I can point at to reliably get a connection without having to drown in bitcoin traffic? (I think there is something in client to that in conf file isn't there?)
edit: ooops, meant Kbps not Mbps
I believe it is 8, let me double check, yep 8. Still 8. I'm sensing a drop to 7, nope still 8, maybe it will rise to 9, drat still 8 
. Hey look it's 8 
! 8,8,8,8, 8,8,8,8, I'm seeing double quadruple! Ahh! I'm thinking in factors of 8!! Anyway it's still 8. 
. Hey look it's 8 ! 8,8,8,8, 8,8,8,8, I'm seeing double quadruple! Ahh! I'm thinking in factors of 8!! Anyway it's still 8. That is an indication that you can initiate connections, but any other peer trying to contact you is blocked. It's harmless, anyway.
Updated my client so I could have less than 8 connections
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Varies heavily for me. Sometimes it will stay for hours at no more than 15 and sometimes it will get 120 connections in under a minute.
I never got a number larger than 8...
Is there anything wrong?
Is there anything wrong?
I believe it is 8, let me double check, yep 8. Still 8. I'm sensing a drop to 7, nope still 8, maybe it will rise to 9, drat still 8 . Hey look it's 8 ! 8,8,8,8, 8,8,8,8, I'm seeing double quadruple! Ahh! I'm thinking in factors of 8!! Anyway it's still 8.
. Hey look it's 8 ! 8,8,8,8, 8,8,8,8, I'm seeing double quadruple! Ahh! I'm thinking in factors of 8!! Anyway it's still 8. That is an indication that you can initiate connections, but any other peer trying to contact you is blocked. It's harmless, anyway.
I believe it is 8, let me double check, yep 8. Still 8. I'm sensing a drop to 7, nope still 8, maybe it will rise to 9, drat still 8 . Hey look it's 8 ! 8,8,8,8, 8,8,8,8, I'm seeing double quadruple! Ahh! I'm thinking in factors of 8!! Anyway it's still 8.
. Hey look it's 8 ! 8,8,8,8, 8,8,8,8, I'm seeing double quadruple! Ahh! I'm thinking in factors of 8!! Anyway it's still 8.
I usually see one or two connections, but then I don't mine and I've forced the client to reject peer connections except those I explicitly tell it to connect to and forced it not to attempt to use the IRC channel at all. If there were some way for clients to know that peers don't want them to announce them to their other peers, I'd use that to.
I've been seeing a lot more lately. Right now I have 117, and a few days ago it was at ~130.
Hm ... I had 1 ... yes, one ... even though I kept the Bitcoin client open for a couple of hours. Restarted ... same ... after installing port forwarding on 8333, it now went up to 70 ... 75 ... whatever, plenty :-)
Sounds like you had some kind of active firewall that was interfering until you explicitly told it not to by opening up port 8333.
Hm ... I had 1 ... yes, one ... even though I kept the Bitcoin client open for a couple of hours. Restarted ... same ... after installing port forwarding on 8333, it now went up to 70 ... 75 ... whatever, plenty :-)
opened my router and now @ 56
I also have endless 8's- even DMZ'd my router for the computer and still 8's.
Unless you are mining, eight is more than enough. It probably is even if you are mining. Unless you are determined to get more, it's likely not worth the effort of tracing down the blockage.
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