We are NOT offline and having 40+ connections stable.
Can you post some addnode IPs? Debug is reporting 287 addresses in my peers.dat, but I'm only connected to 3. This is after 24+ hours of running the client.
FWIW, del.poolerino.com is up, but 96.27.101.117 (the other peer listed in the OP) is not.
You can use every running pool as an node.
addnode=del.poolerino.com
addnode=delete.okaypool.com
addnode=del.sumpool.com
The port you have to open in your FW is 45651, then others connect to you and vis versa.