the impact of the number of connected peers on farming

[alexfog2302]

I have no more than 10 connected peers on port 8444, others have 50 peers each. Checking port 8444 in browser shows closed. Does the number of connected peers affect farming, and do I need to add some settings and open port 8444 if everything is synchronized?

[xieem]

Hi did you ever got an answer on this?

[rmica]

By my experience, opening 8444 is to help others (passive connections), the farming works even with a 8444 port closed, and eventually you can increase the limit of active connections in the config.yaml. When I started in may, I hadn't yet opened 8444 and was lucky enough to win my first block with a bunch of plots and only 10 active connections.
Anyway, helping others is good practice if you want to be part of a network. So by my point of view, it's sort of mandatory. BTW I prefer port forwarding on upnp.

[BrandtH22]

@alexfog2302 , since this ticket was opened a number of years ago without further comments it seems this issue has been resolved.
We will be closing this ticket but if we have closed this ticket in error do not hesitate to reach out to us again with any followup questions or comments.

Note - closing port 8444 means that other nodes would not be able to connect to you (incoming peers) but you would still be able to connect to other peers (outgoing peers) so while it will take longer to find peers and you may disconnect from peers more often with port 8444 closed the client will still farm so long as it remains in sync and connected to other nodes.

The best place to reach our support team is on Discord (https://discord.gg/chia) or by reopening this ticket.