Two Days of No Servers in Server Screen

[DobyDoLittle]

I am trying to setup for the first time.
I have poured over the posts and tried all the fixes that I can find and still I have no servers in the server screen. I can log in and see the project 1999 EULA so it seems i'm in the right universe but I just cant get any servers to come up. My brain is like jelly at this point so if anyone is willing to help PLEASE tell me what info I can give so I might be able to fix this.
I've also tried pinging the host and still get a request time out. I have port 5998 manually opened and have reinstalled titanium 3 times. My drivers are all updated and I have never adjusted any bios settings. I have firewall exceptions for eqgame.exe and have accounts for both 1999 project and EQemu and they are linked. Theres more I have done but its all a blur.