karen , my parents dont know anything about computers, i am the computer 'genious of the family' i build computers repair them and install all the software and OS's. I guess this problem is beyond my knowledge, if you say someone is doing something to my connection while i am online that can't be right because i havent been on iRc for 2 weeks now and i get disconnected almost every night, so how could someone be doing that to my connection? i dont know im almost gonna give up.