what's your OS?
1) look to firewall rule for wildwestcoin-qt.exe
2) mark ''map port using UPnP" in wallet settings
3) look to your router settings for port 24732 and enable UPnP
4) enter command in windows command-line ''netstat -a -b -n >net.txt" and look to net.txt file for wildwestcoin-qt connections with port 24732 and other, can be ENABLE if SYN_SEND your Firewall or router do blocking wallet connections
5) reboot PC and router after marked UPnP options and check it after restart !

I make today scrypt-file for fast connections with WEST network, WildWestCoin network is good and stable I have 20-30 active connections !

I am programmer too, may be I support WEST in the future