heres a bit of an update... i live in a house with a bunch of guys (college house, kind of like a frat), and no computer with vista can use dcc send or let alone get a solid connection to any server or channel. XP works fine though. I've tested this on Vista Home Premium, Vista Home Basic, and Ultimate x64. Then on campus today I tried downloading things with mIRC on the campus' wireless network and it worked fine. So somewhere theres a problem with Vista and my houses network. Still no ideas anyone?