i didnt accuse you of illegal downloading, i simply asked about a couple of things that could be causing the prob to try to narrow it down. As for "just accepting" that some ppl use mIRC for rampant downloading from strangers and cause problems, no thank you.
Please realize that with any given situation, there are a lot of factors. The cause could be on the senders end or the recievers. Since the majority of ppl seem able to use dcc without probs, we then have to look for the variables in those who do have probs. It has nothing to do with a lack of wanting to resolve an issue. You use XP and have a problem, Mentality and many others use XP and dont have a problem. Have you tried without xp's firewall enabled? tried different server ports? different packet sizes?
