...you call those clear instructions?

I'm a Canadian living in china..don't want to start messing around with their Chinese language router...what the tarnation is a 'port forward'...for the sake of us less computer literate..could you simplify a bit...and why didn't the developers have this sorted to begin with?? Is it the miners job to troubleshoot their shoddy wallets??
There are some more nodes you can add to the smatcoin .conf file located in the smartcoin-win32 folder you originally downloaded. Edit it and delete all the text. Replace it with the following:
daemon=1
rpcport=58583
rpcuser=usernamehere
rpcpassword=rpcpasswordhere
addnode=smartcoin.cryptotycoons.com
addnode=seed.getsmartcoin.com
addnode=seed1.getsmartcoin.com
addnode=seed2.getsmartcoin.com
addnode=smc.smartmining.net
addnode=smc.poolerino.com
addnode=smc.miningwith.us
addnode=smc.hash.so
addnode=smc.bitember.com
addnode=smc.updamoon.com
addnode=smc.nicemining.pw
addnode=smc.bitcrush.info
addnode=smc.greekpool.eu
addnode=smc.cryptopools.com
addnode=95.85.48.143
addnode=46.4.147.19
addnode=176.9.189.114
addnode=107.170.23.206
addnode=23.239.64.28
addnode=198.199.106.114
addnode=46.4.32.195
addnode=74.120.220.250
addnode=192.81.214.95
addnode=142.4.205.132
addnode=198.41.186.208
addnode=108.162.197.112
addnode=141.101.116.174
addnode=78.46.85.229
addnode=141.101.117.122
Save the file and then copy the file itself. Next, go to the windows button and in the search bar type "%appdata%" without quotations. You should see a Roaming folder and inside that you should find your smartcoin folder. Paste the copied .conf file into the smartcoin folder and then restart the wallet. This should add more connections and should allow those of you who can't connect to connect and those of you with poor connections to have a better connection. Keep in mind not all of these nodes are active but a populated list, from what I understand, will give more opportunities to find a running node. Hope this helps.