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Thank you for taking the time to read my post and offer assistance, I went back to my router and deleted the config allowing inbound traffic for 9735, restarted my router, then set the config back up with 9735 and reset the router one last time. I ran LND and peers auto connected to me and the same peers have been connected to me for 1hr+. I manually connected to a peer 20 minutes ago and the connection seems stable and I have not dropped. I can use lnd getnodeinfo <peerid> on the peer i manually connected too and can see their channels and even channel capacity. I believe I have fixed the issue with simply resetting the config in my router even though it was correctly set the first time(checked a hundred times pulling my hair out) I think I am good at this point, but will attempt to open a channel with my stable peer here shortly. Although I have read how lightning works I am a bit nervous to open my first channel with liquidity. I am running this on my windows 11 PC, using LND daemon cmd prompt style, no virtual machine here although I touched up on Linux in college. Do you run a lightning node, any advice for beginner opening first channel?
sorry for later response, yes I am running full btc node with lnd.
there are several options to open channel. you can use LSP - buy a channel, e.g. you pay XX sats to LSP and they open channel with you with YY sats capacity for defined time period. OR you can open channel with your sats with olympus by zeus [1] , megalithic.me
for beginning open private channel, that means that channel is not publicly visible and will be used only by you.
[1] https://amboss.space/node/031b301307574bbe9b9ac7b79cbe1700e31e544513eae0b5d7497483083f99e581
they open channel with you with YY sats capacity for defined time period.
Why just for a defined time period? I though keeping a public channel open for as much time as possible helps increase trust within the network peers. Is that not true then? Does it works different for private channels?
looks you are running those on windows. ok
did you check firewall on that windows machine?, did you open port 9735? I assume you done it for port 8333.
is that machine behind nat router? did you port forward both ports?
as @DarthCoin mentioned configuring external ip ...
if your machine is behind NAT then you should set your public IP instead local ip of your server.
bitcoinds has same config for external ip ...