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that's not reality, you can have much more than 8, as I just showed I am connect to 18 and it's a very bad internet connection lol
as I said, connected doesn't mean are also downloading blocks. It could be very easily just pinging your node and waiting for response until one of the leechers are getting kicked out.
Also you will have to "announce" your node with
externalip=yourP2pTorHiddenService.onion or clearnet IP
listen=1
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Right, so those nodes are connect to download zero blocks.
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