I was using the mutliplay function that came standard with the game, thats all i ever used for playing online.

to my knowledge I don't have a firewall or router up.

if it helps i'm running windows xp home.
my wife just added a 5 port networking hub to connect her pc to mine maybe that has something to do with it.

that help any?

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