Hi I now have it set up my two routers as you suggested and am still having problems. i have tried having ports 5000-5008 forwarded to my machine. I can only map a max of 20 ports on my router so cannot map 1024 to 5000 to my ip. I have made sure that the settings in mIRC are correct to recieve those ports. i am also forwarding 113 UDP and 6660-6669. i have tried disabling my firewall.
no joy. the DNS lookup is working (i think that was a spelling mistake on my part

). I fact i cannot receive now either...
any ideas?