No firewall and I've disabled all antivirus.
I am in a pretty obscure location travelling so geographically I can't imagine I'm near many peers.
Added in the old wallet.dat and I can see my coins now but still no syncing (0 connections to network all the time).
I might try connect through a VPN in case there is something weird here with the internet connection blocking it - but I'm not sure if this will solve the problem. I might also try and remove conf file entirely who knows.
Please let me know if you have any suggestions!
Here are some peers I have. You might try deleting all lines in you .conf and just leave the addnodes only.
23:29:36

getpeerinfo
23:29:36

[
{
"addr" : "89.37.154.132:8514",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1400650126,
"lastrecv" : 1400650174,
"conntime" : 1400649749,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/tekcoin:1.2.0/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 367410,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "67.211.45.68:8514",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1400650173,
"lastrecv" : 1400650174,
"conntime" : 1400649749,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/tekcoin:1.9.1/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 367410,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "198.101.10.109:8514",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1400650174,
"lastrecv" : 1400650174,
"conntime" : 1400649772,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/tekcoin:1.1.0/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 367410,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "68.224.133.220:8514",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1400650174,
"lastrecv" : 1400650174,
"conntime" : 1400649779,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/tekcoin:1.9.1/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 367411,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "101.166.8.206:8514",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1400650174,
"lastrecv" : 1400650174,
"conntime" : 1400649780,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/tekcoin:1.9.1/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 367411,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "24.13.167.104:8514",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1400650174,
"lastrecv" : 1400650174,
"conntime" : 1400649857,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/tekcoin:1.2.0/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 367412,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "178.32.55.67:8514",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1400650126,
"lastrecv" : 1400650173,
"conntime" : 1400649863,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/tekcoin:1.9.1/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 367412,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "162.243.43.190:8514",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1400650127,
"lastrecv" : 1400650173,
"conntime" : 1400649864,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/tekcoin:1.9.1/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 367412,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "192.241.252.147:8514",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1400650126,
"lastrecv" : 1400650174,
"conntime" : 1400649998,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/tekcoin:1.2.0/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 367413,
"banscore" : 0
}
]