Check to see if your port forwarding is working using this URL:
Enter your.ext.ip.add:9030 and you should get the following response:
The requested resource could not be loaded because the server returned an error: 503 Directory unavailable (?).
If you get the following error instead, your forwarding is not working:
The requested resource could not be loaded. libcurl returned the error: couldn't connect to host
Use this list to check against working relays:
http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/
I used the following tor router 85.25.145.98:9030 (randomly selected one with the default 9030 port in use):
with the above proxy and it got the "503 Directory unavailable" which is the correct response.