Thanks again for your reply. I tried creating a new rule in my firewall for the slimcoin wallet app, and even disabled my firewall for a period of time....unfortunately none of these options were able to get my wallet to sync.

Here is what I have written in my slimcoin.conf file. Can you kindly take a look at it? Maybe I've forgotten to include something? Or if possible, could you share what you've written in your .conf file?  Thanks again for you help!

addnode=78.46.37.209
addnode=145.239.189.106
addnode=85.10.208.71
addnode=37.187.100.75
addnode=112.113.96.138
addnode=123.2.121.70
addnode=188.134.72.213
addnode=5.9.38.137
addnode=178.222.61.137
addnode=81.207.93.95
addnode=146.200.136.172
addnode=212.186.174.90
addnode=5.9.39.9
addnode=86.56.74.0
addnode=213.165.83.122
addnode=217.65.8.75
addnode=46.160.104.75
addnode=5.105.63.14
addnode=195.19.128.122
daemon=1
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcport=41683
port=41682
server=1
listen=1
rpcuser=*******
rpcpassword=********