Let's try to keep it friendly, some people are having a lot more problems than others.
(btw I'm a dev, I'd like to understand the problems with our system so we can implement them intelligently)
I had no luck with the port forwarding also. I think this is a poorly implemented coin with things done in ridiculous ways. Wishes of success to those who stick with it. I haven't the patience or time for these kind of fix the shite as we go bs.
You have to port forward within you DSL modem etc., how are you connected to the internet?
Sorry, done with this.
What problem exactly are you having? Do you have 0 peers? If you do, you should update your software and restart Sia. If you still have 0 peers, it means that nobody can connect to you, and this is a strange problem.
If you can't forward your ports, it might be because your router or ISP have some strange configurations and our software just doesn't understand how to deal with it. It's unfortunate that we can't get it working for everybody yet, but we're only 2 people and NAT transversal is a really complicated and nasty problem. I would encourage you to try again in 3 months, after we've had a few more iterations.
We're very new to running live software, and we ask for you to be patient with all of the bugs. We're still refining our testing process, still refining our quality control, and at this point felt it was more important to have something out the door than to have something perfect out the door. Even if we had taken more time, we probably wouldn't have predicted at least 70% of the problems that you guys are having. We're just inexperienced when it comes to software deployment.
That said, we've learned a boatload from this first week, and we expect our next major version (0.4.0) to be a lot smoother. There will still probably be problems, especially if the number of users goes up dramatically, but we will continue to refine our process. (We're also in the process of expanding our team. 'we're only two guys' isn't going to be true for much longer).