I tried that, I did practically everything I could find related to Linksys, none of it works. I did the DMZ hosting and the forwarding. I shut off my XP firewall, uninstalled MSN, installed at least 3 other irc programs, all of them still give the same 10053 error, or my connection is refused depending on the ports. I've gone through all of the IRC installation and setup guides, tried downloading 6 different mIRC versions from 4.5 up to 5.81. I was only somehow able to successfully connect once after looking up the dns, but then it booted me off 2 minutes later and wouldn't let me back on again. I tried on my roommate's computer and got the exact same broken results. I've tried letting it run for hours and it never connects. I have no idea what to do at this point.
