It is very important to have a lot of connections in Primecoin wallet, otherwise you will have many orphaned blocks.
So if you have only 8 active connections, you need to allow incoming connections, check related topics about it.
you guys know how to increase this connection ?
i'm thinking maybe this has to do with adding peers
did some searching and you can do a command called getpeerinfo
it will spit out a file that includes ip addresses
from that you take the ip addresses and format them like this in your config
addnode=210.44.211.16:9911
addnode=206.217.128.2:9911
addnode=144.76.194.77:9911
addnode=66.41.100.146:9911
addnode=66.31.220.87:9911
addnode=190.151.124.146:9911
addnode=81.47.171.163:23539
addnode=213.21.33.13:8805
addnode=46.231.209.170:1644
addnode=15.185.126.29:63565
addnode=91.185.48.133:58444
addnode=192.182.137.8:50346
addnode=101.77.75.7:62136
addnode=203.189.24.21:11635
addnode=173.203.101.6:9911
addnode=31.42.188.194:63898
addnode=88.247.45.201:58138
addnode=201.22.6.178:58306
addnode=220.82.236.221:55290
these are the peers i pulled.
if you have any others that i don't hit me with your list