user10184: I have received bitcoins from an online wallet and I am now trying to send 0.05 BTC to another address. I have by now figured out that I need to set at least 0.0001 BTC as a sender fee (that error message was confusing, because it appears before has the opportunity to set that fee!). 
I am now getting the error message “MultiBit must be online and connected to more than one peer to send bitcoin”. I can see from the status in the lower left corner that MultiBit is online, but I can not see the number of peers. 


How can I check the number of peers? 
Why is MultiBit not connected to more than one peer (if any)? 
How long can it take to connect to more than one peer? 

I am using MultiBit 0.5.14 with Ubuntu 13.10.

user888: You can hover over the "Online" indicator to see the number of peers.
It should only take a few seconds to find more peers. This is dependent on the Bitcoin network though. You can force MultiBit to attempt to connect to a whole new set of peers by restarting it.

10184: <p>I have received bitcoins from an online wallet and I am now trying to send 0.05 BTC to another address. I have by now figured out that I need to set at least 0.0001 BTC as a sender fee (that error message was confusing, because it appears <em>before</em> has the opportunity to set that fee!). </p>

<p>I am now getting the error message “MultiBit must be online and connected to more than one peer to send bitcoin”. I can see from the status in the lower left corner that MultiBit is online, but I can not see the number of peers. </p>

<p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/SnsGM7s.png" alt="screenshot of MultiBit 0.5.14 showing error message"></p>

<ul>
<li>How can I check the number of peers? </li>
<li>Why is MultiBit not connected to more than one peer (if any)? </li>
<li>How long can it take to connect to more than one peer? </li>
</ul>

<p>I am using MultiBit 0.5.14 with Ubuntu 13.10.</p>
 888: <p>You can hover over the "Online" indicator to see the number of peers.</p>

<p>It should only take a few seconds to find more peers. This is dependent on the Bitcoin network though. You can force MultiBit to attempt to connect to a whole new set of peers by restarting it.</p>
