Hi Thomas,
Thanks for the follow up help. I am not behind a corporate network of any type, just the standard windows 8.1 firewall on my laptop. I have opened up the following ports. 22, 3200, 3300, 3601, 8002, 8443, 30215, 50000, 50001, 50213, 50214 inbound and outbound. I believe I saw this on some other document amongst my travels. I have also just turned off my windows firewall to no avail.
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-28294#jive_content_id_Step_3__Connecting_to_your_instance
This link basically says "•Simply enter the IP address of your instance into your web browser http://IP ADDRESS and you will find a neatly prepared landing page full of great information, links to tools within your server and some great content to help you get started. "
Based on this can you provide any other advice or resources so I can connect form my local client.
Thanks again,
Ken Murray