if your xp firewall is enabled .. disable it and get something like zonealarm to replace it ...... everytime i was idle in mirc for more than 10 mins it was ping timing out off the server ..... i disabled the xp firewall and went with zonealarm and it hasnt happened since ... right now ive been connected for 2 weeks to the same server i run all kinds of system draining apps and i no longer drop off
