First thanks for the replies. Staigen I'm pretty sure that my IP is dynamic not sure what it is at the moment. I did manage to connect last night through a proxy service, but that's really slow. The only thing that worries me is that maybe an ip block is banned right now for some reason. For example say my actual ip was 192.168.1.1 I believe you can block 192.XXX.XXX so all ip's that start with 192 would be blocked. I hope this is not the case, but maybe it's just a DNS error, and I need to contact either the hosting company or my ISP. I've checked everything I can think of on my side...blocked sites, hosts file, router config, AV programs, and what not. Hopefully it'll get straigtened out.