Not much activity from my nodes point of view

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Hey guys, have been running a node for a couple months now (one of the last rpi incentive recipients) and at the start I had upto 20 connections, but a month now, since the recent crypto crash before bitcoin cash came in, I had been stuck at 8.
And yes its not a technical issue, all settings are fine, and I can connect to myself using the android wallet from an external connection, so I know it’s not me, just seems to be a lot less active clients out there.

Anyone notice the same with their own nodes?

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You are likely having port forwarding issues.

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Nagalim as mentioned I don’t have port forwarding issues, I already ruled that out as mentioned above.

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It would be extremely coincidental for you to have exactly 8 connections at all times without having port forwarding issues.

I have 38, for reference.

You could try adding more nodes to your config file, like this:

addnode=66.90.146.146
addnode=91.156.102.128
addnode=110.174.124.20
addnode=67.14.164.114
addnode=37.209.40.22
addnode=50.71.216.165
addnode=109.108.236.208
addnode=173.28.37.150
addnode=68.102.86.156
addnode=213.251.187.24
addnode=188.134.122.31
addnode=72.38.179.122
addnode=76.74.177.224
addnode=218.180.6
addnode=31.24.80.156
addnode=46.65.33.21
addnode=62.31.88.142
addnode=81.100.119.142
addnode=81.149.181.135
addnode=82.9.170.174
addnode=82.69.125.194
addnode=84.45.63.215
addnode=85.210.2.42
addnode=86.25.137.37
addnode=86.26.167.73
addnode=86.129.206.40
addnode=86.167.107.72
addnode=86.180.216.163
addnode=86.181.250.67
addnode=86.185.117.11
addnode=87.115.160.6
addnode=92.21.38.37
addnode=93.97.116.5
addnode=94.173.112.226
addnode=109.145.196.8
addnode=109.152.123.95
addnode=109.158.241.250

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Cool, what does that do? Would that make my node more visible for other connections?

As mentioned I did test connecting to my node using phone data through the android wallet and it I can connect to myself, which in turn increases my connections to 9.

My location could be a factor. Last time I checked (month ago) I was the only active node in Sydney.

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