a few S1s. I have the port open now, but I cant seem to connect to it... still chugging away at it..
S1s are notoriously difficult to get solo mining directly against a wallet. it has to do with the old version of cgminer they use, high queue settings, trouble dealing with the protocol, etc. Got any other miners you can try (like an old USB stick or something)? There's always the option of setting up your own pool (MPOS pools are pretty straightforward to setup) and just point your S1s to the pool. Since you'd be the only one on it, it would be solo mining.
Here's an idea for your .conf file:
server=1
listen=1
daemon=1
rpcuser=WKCuser
rpcpassword=awnv983whtewnsdkSDOF2d
rpcallowip=192.168.1.*
Then when you configure your S1...
Assuming your miner is running on 192.168.1.11, then your URL is 192.168.1.11:9335
user name is WKCuser
password is awnv983whtewnsdkSDOF2d