Farmer only has 10 connected peers

[Bones]

Outbound peers is what needs altering.
After updating to latest version I had 8 peers.

My outbound peer count was at 8.
Put it to 40, I now have 40.

It’s odd, as the line beneath it says target peer count 80, but it’s clearly using the outbound no not the target no.

I read this from jacek here…

Russian nodes increasing

The problem is that there is no one optimum number. This number should depend on what H/W you have (i.e., adjusted during the installation) and what network conditions are at the moment (e.g., reduced during the heavy dust storms (to reduce extra network traffic), or syncing from scratch (as your node is considered dead)). Instead, someone used his/her grandmother age, and put that value at 80, and no one questions it (as by not questioning it, no one needs to do the work). If the code was p…