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Quote from: Wave on November 28, 2012, 03:44:26 PM

I got it, up to 10 connections now and slowly climbing.

The short of it...

Install bitcoinqt client and sync with block chain
Be sure the computer running the bitcoin client gets a static IP address assigned by your router
Forward port TCP port 8333 from internet to the IP you assigned in the step above
Done ;-)

-Wave

Why does it have to be TCP port 8333?

Wave

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Been going a few weeks now, and it seems I average around 60 connections. How do I improve that?

-Wave

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Quote from: Akka on November 28, 2012, 03:14:02 PM

If it doesn't increase it numbers of connections try:

bitcoin-qt.exe -maxconnections=x , while x is the number of connections you would like to have at max.

This option only limits your connections to your "x" value.

Is there a reason to limit the number of connections? If so what is a good number to limit it to?
Sam

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I just set up mines on a vm. Took about 2 hours to dowoad. Supporting ฿ all the way!

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Quote from: zvs on November 30, 2012, 07:04:44 AM

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Quote from: AfricanHunter on November 28, 2012, 06:32:03 AM

Is there any other benefit to running a full node beyond increasing the diversity/stability of the network?

Im not sure but having more connections would mean that blocks are loaded faster if you have to download blocks for some days. With standard client it can be hard to wait to download the blocks of last days.
Its hard to wait until to get confirmations but even harder when you cant use bitcoins because you miss the last blocks. With more connections this should be faster.

That is false, downloading of blocks are depended on I/O speeds, CPU, and network, this will not make blocks download faster.

The benefits are that your helping the network and protecting it.

Strange. I never had much traffic or cpu and blocks were loading painful slow with 8 connections. So my guess was that, like with every other p2p-network you only need more partners to get blocks faster. Ok, then the border is somewhere else...

whenever i have a significant amt of blocks I need to catch up on, i just connect to one fast node.. then there's no risk of slow peers, taking the 'network' out of the equation

How do you connect to just one node (and know it's fast)? I have to download the entire blockchain, and its going to take days at the current rate.

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Quote from: Wave on December 02, 2012, 08:59:38 AM

Os2Sam,
Search for your IP address on blockchain.info site is how I did it.

-Wave

Oh, OK. Obvious enough

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Well you've helped me move forward a little more. Hadn't really thought much about setting up port forwarding to my Bitcoin node in a while, now with your, and others, here input I've gotten it done.
Thanks,
Sam

Wave

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Os2Sam,
Search for your IP address on blockchain.info site is how I did it.

-Wave

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Quote from: Wave on November 28, 2012, 09:24:52 PM

Alright Gents, I have 25 connections now and have relayed a couple of transactions first on blockchain.info.
-Wave

I setup port forwarding to my client last night. I'm up to 28 connections now.

How do you know you've relayed transactions? Does the client log that?
Thanks,
Sam

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Quote from: SebastianJu on November 28, 2012, 07:22:17 PM

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Quote from: AfricanHunter on November 28, 2012, 06:32:03 AM

Is there any other benefit to running a full node beyond increasing the diversity/stability of the network?

Im not sure but having more connections would mean that blocks are loaded faster if you have to download blocks for some days. With standard client it can be hard to wait to download the blocks of last days.
Its hard to wait until to get confirmations but even harder when you cant use bitcoins because you miss the last blocks. With more connections this should be faster.

That is false, downloading of blocks are depended on I/O speeds, CPU, and network, this will not make blocks download faster.

The benefits are that your helping the network and protecting it.

Strange. I never had much traffic or cpu and blocks were loading painful slow with 8 connections. So my guess was that, like with every other p2p-network you only need more partners to get blocks faster. Ok, then the border is somewhere else...

whenever i have a significant amt of blocks I need to catch up on, i just connect to one fast node.. then there's no risk of slow peers, taking the 'network' out of the equation

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Quote from: gweedo on November 28, 2012, 10:08:07 AM

Quote from: SebastianJu on November 28, 2012, 07:08:30 AM

Quote from: AfricanHunter on November 28, 2012, 06:32:03 AM

Is there any other benefit to running a full node beyond increasing the diversity/stability of the network?

Im not sure but having more connections would mean that blocks are loaded faster if you have to download blocks for some days. With standard client it can be hard to wait to download the blocks of last days.
Its hard to wait until to get confirmations but even harder when you cant use bitcoins because you miss the last blocks. With more connections this should be faster.

That is false, downloading of blocks are depended on I/O speeds, CPU, and network, this will not make blocks download faster.

The benefits are that your helping the network and protecting it.

Thanks guys, appreciate the information

Wave

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Alright Gents, I have 25 connections now and have relayed a couple of transactions first on blockchain.info. How do I become a better node? Static IP? Forced connections to other fast nodes? I have 30MBPS down and 6 up...

-Wave

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Quote from: gweedo on November 28, 2012, 10:08:07 AM

Quote from: SebastianJu on November 28, 2012, 07:08:30 AM

Quote from: AfricanHunter on November 28, 2012, 06:32:03 AM

Is there any other benefit to running a full node beyond increasing the diversity/stability of the network?

Im not sure but having more connections would mean that blocks are loaded faster if you have to download blocks for some days. With standard client it can be hard to wait to download the blocks of last days.
Its hard to wait until to get confirmations but even harder when you cant use bitcoins because you miss the last blocks. With more connections this should be faster.

That is false, downloading of blocks are depended on I/O speeds, CPU, and network, this will not make blocks download faster.

The benefits are that your helping the network and protecting it.

Strange. I never had much traffic or cpu and blocks were loading painful slow with 8 connections. So my guess was that, like with every other p2p-network you only need more partners to get blocks faster. Ok, then the border is somewhere else...

Wave

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I got it, up to 10 connections now and slowly climbing.

The short of it...

Install bitcoinqt client and sync with block chain
Be sure the computer running the bitcoin client gets a static IP address assigned by your router
Forward port TCP port 8333 from internet to the IP you assigned in the step above
Done ;-)

-Wave

Wave

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Niko - Thanks, server has static IP.

Akka - Will give it a shot!

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If it doesn't increase it numbers of connections try:

bitcoin-qt.exe -maxconnections=x , while x is the number of connections you would like to have at max.

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There is more to Bitcoin than bitcoins.

Quote from: Wave on November 28, 2012, 02:54:18 PM

Will it work even if I do not have a static IP? I know how to do port forwarding and I want to do this to support the bitcoin network. Thanks for the links folks, I should have time to read up tomorrow!

-Wave

Yes, it will work regardless of your WAN IP. Note, however, that your LAN IP (the one assigned by your router to devices within your home network) needs to be static if you want to manually set the router to forward port 8333 to the device that runs your client. This is usually easy to set up through you router settings.

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Quote from: Wave on November 28, 2012, 03:10:44 PM

Hell, that was easy. I already had the full client running. I can see the traffic flowing now in my logs via 8333 port forwarding. However, client still only shows 8 connections. Will keep my eye on it.

It is cause your router isn't port forward, and your connecting thru uPnP, you need to forward port 8333. Otherwise your not really getting incoming connections.

Wave

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Hell, that was easy. I already had the full client running. I can see the traffic flowing now in my logs via 8333 port forwarding. However, client still only shows 8 connections. Will keep my eye on it.

Wave

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Will it work even if I do not have a static IP? I know how to do port forwarding and I want to do this to support the bitcoin network. Thanks for the links folks, I should have time to read up tomorrow!

-Wave

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Quote from: gweedo on November 27, 2012, 11:53:49 PM

Quote from: niko on November 27, 2012, 11:52:58 PM

Are you done yet, and how is it going? Port forwarding can be done automatically if your router supports uPnP. It might take many hours to download the whole blockchain, but once this is done, it's done. You will be running a full node.

Don't use uPnP you will mostly only get 8 connections if you want to be a full node, make sure the port is forward so you can allow incoming connections.

UPnP allows your client to configure the router to open port 8333, so you can have more than eight connections. Of course, this only works if your router is uPnP-ready.

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