I had no issue syncing the blockchain. I just ran the QT wallet in Windows and it just started syncing. Not sure why you're having issues... I'm not seeing it myself.
all this is excellent, but tell me why I again lost the connection? 0 active connections ...
Because the dev built some kind of backasswards product that requires port forwarding to sync blocks. What decade is this? Shit, in what decade did you have to port forward to DOWNLOAD?