This thread is from 2004 and last reply before yours is 2008! Please start a new thread next time instead of replying to 1 that is so old. Procedures change around here somewhat regularly and replying to something so old probably isn't the best idea, since whatever the original topic was for is no longer valid or has been answered since then multiple times.
That aside, you might find some useful information in the FAQ in my sig. Sounds like you are maybe creating your shortcut for everquest.exe instead of eqgame.exe. Or, maybe you are not saving your host file properly. Sometimes it gets saves as eqhost.txt.txt and you might not notice if you have known file extensions set to not be displayed. Yet another possibility is that you may be playing from some location (work, school, airport, etc) that uses a proxy and blocks port 5998. If you are not playing from home, or if you do not own the modem that connects you to the internet (some type of shared connection), it is very possible that there is a proxy in place that is blocking your connection attempts. If that is the case, there may be little you can do about it other than to ask the network administrator to open port 5998.
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