How to Locate New Remote Daemons for More Peer Connections?

[CoinSTR]

I have downloaded a desktop wallet, however, I'm either finding myself to be "Disconnected" or only showing 1, 2, ..., or 5 Peers, which makes for a VERY SLOW synchronization experience and very off-putting for someone entering into this Cryptocurrency arena.  Does anyone have any suggestions on how to locate Remote Daemons to connect to, for their coin of choice?  I've been synchronizing for over a week and am only halfway finished with the sync.  Mind you, it's taken the last 2 1/2 days to go from 7XX,XXX/1,6XX,XXX to 9XX,XXX/1,6XX,XXX and today, it's going even slower!  If anyone can help out with this situation, please do not be shy.  I need help with this.

Thank you.

[pooya87]

you forgot to mention what altcoin you are talking about here! maybe there really isn't that many full nodes for you to find and those that you do find may actually be that slow!
in any case based on your username and the block count i thought it is Stratis that you are trying but checking the blocks it is 1.01 mil not 1.6
check this site: https://chainz.cryptoid.info/ (change the coin to the one that you are using). switch to the network tab then select one of the node versions with most number of nodes, click on node list and copy the IP addresses that it gives you and trying adding them in your node to connect to. this might help a little.
like this for STRAT example:

Code:

addnode=101.98.21.23
addnode=108.86.207.113
addnode=110.175.229.189
...

[CoinSTR]

Thanks for your help.  I am not yet familiar with the rules of the forum and didn't want it to seem like I'm promoting a certain coin over any others, so I did intentionally refrain from mentioning the name of the coin.  Because it seems it would be okay (I don't want people to assume some other coin), it is Bytecoin.  My wallet for Bytecoin is dragging along, with regards to the synchronization, and it's becoming a burden for me, as someone that's very interested in immersing myself into this environment.  My biggest gripe is how such complications would make the casually-interested people feel.  How can we expect people, long term, to adopt cryptocurrency over fiat, when one is unable to even synchronize their wallet?  At this point, I really don't know what to do.  I've googled all the Remote Daemon IPs/Hosts:Port that I could find, and none seem to be working.

[pooya87]

there are servers you can connect to and download a little bit faster such as these:

Code:

node.bytecoin.ninja – port 8081
node.bytecoin.org.in – port 8081
bcn.phm.life – port 8081

read this for more information:
http://bytecoin.org.in/how-to-get-blazing-fast-blockchain-sync-on-your-bytecoin-wallet/

you can also try asking the bytecoin community, they may be more familiar with the coin and its problems: https://www.reddit.com/r/BytecoinBCN/

My biggest gripe is how such complications would make the casually-interested people feel.  How can we expect people, long term, to adopt cryptocurrency over fiat, when one is unable to even synchronize their wallet? 

well, there are always options. they may not be available in altcoins but there are options such as SPV clients for bitcoin. for instance you can use Electrum which is a light bitcoin wallet and it doesn't need any synchronization. it just downloads blockchain headers which is a file about 40 MB big and it will do it within minutes in majority of systems. there is also no verification like full nodes so it is that much faster.

[CoinSTR]

Thank you again for your assistance.  I have taken a look at the URLs you posted and at this point, have still been unsuccessful with speeding up my synchronization with regards to my current wallet.
However, thanks to your awesome suggestion of SPV clients, I have been able to locate a few solutions that would allow me to quickly begin using Bytecoin.

Solution 1:  Bytecoin has it's own Web-based wallet.  I saw this when I first visited their website, but I don't know...  I didn't really give it much thought when I saw it the first time, and even still, I'm not giving it much consideration because I don't have much control over where the funds are, if they are on their webhost.  I'd rather have the downloaded wallet on my laptop, with backups in various places (all under my control).

Solution 2:  It seems there's a website that offers wallet solutions for various cryptocurrencies, called freewallet.org.  They offer both web and mobile wallet solutions, and while my interest has taken notice to their mobile wallets, it's still not quite the same as having it on my laptop, ftp server, and thumbdrives, with easy access.

I'll keep searching, but again, I do appreciate your assistance.