Thanks but I still have 0 connections to the network. I'll try another day.
If your HBN Active network connection stay Low or you suffer from a lot of disconnects in your debug log.
As usual , we can blame Microsoft, the windows firewall is a strange creature, even thru HBN seems to work without making changes to the windows firewall , it seems to cause some issues.
Try This:
Windows :
Click start, click control panel, click Windows Firewall,
Make a note on which network is connected Home/Work or Public
Then Click on Allow a Program or feature thru Windows Firewall , click allow another program, click browse , then go to the folder with HoboNickel-qt.exe , select HoboNickel-qt.exe , click open, click add ,
It should then be in the list of allowed programs with a check mark to the left and a check mark on the right side under home/work or public (you want it to be on the 1 that showed as connected), Click OK , and then reboot.
Next time you start the HBN client, your active connections should be normal.
FYI:
If you still have problems check your Antivirus and make sure it's firewall is not blocking HBN.
FYI2:
Make sure your HoboNickels.conf is actually a .conf and not a .txt file
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/software/how-show-or-hide-file-extensions-3341794/FYI3:
sKept15k is correct make sure your PC's Time is correct.