i explained earlier,or at least i thought i did,that i have a router. i don't know how to check on this but the same ipconfig address is the same it has always been as it is a static ip address. the server address is about the same. the internet ip address is the same as well. nothing has changed. the only thing thatmight have changed,and why it would wouldn't make sense,is i bought an external dvd burner recently. it started yesterday,1 day after i bought it. so unless that is the cause i do not know what else to do. i even went to comcast and checked my ports and no one has changed it there either. i don't know.