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Anyways to samandhi, thanx for your help but Ive figured out that my ISP dosesn't allow people to connect to me...is there another way besides switching ISP's?
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Yes there is something you can do. You can set up a proxy server... Here is how that works. Your ISP wont be blocking the standard ports incoming, such as 80 (which is used for browsers). All you have to do is set up a proxy that assigns port 9000, or whatever port you need it to use, to use port 80 (you may not really want to use port 80, for obvious reasons, but this is just an example. You would use some OTHER standard port).. I used to have an ISP like this and wanted to run an FTP server...
Or you can email them and ask them what ports are open, as they usually only block a range of ports (though not always)... Then just use one of the open ports that is NOT standard... This may take some research on your part, but IS possible....
To find out what ports you have open to you, just make sure all firewall software is OFF, then go to Norton's website and use their security software. Or just download a port sniffer and sniff out your own ports to see which ones are open incoming (because outgoing isnt the problem).
Hope this helps some..........................
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