Thanks mate, this was helpful.

I can't get anyway near 30 connections. I find, also that if you mess with it too much, the wallet does not like that.

Changed peers.dat, added all nodes and extra ones manually, with and without the []!!!

Nightmare.

I have 7 million emb, so far in 2 weeks, 2 rewards of about $100. Hey, not bad.

I have followed you.