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There's a big problam with mIRC when trying to send files if you are under a LAN or a Firewall.
It sends the dcc send command to the user, but it doesn't connect to the user when he accepts the file. Probably cause he tries to connect to you on a port mIRC selects, but the Firewall doesn't.
It only accures in mIRC, could someone look in to it and try to fix that problam ?
Maybe try to use the ports that other programs do like ICQ or Explorer or cehck in the Windows options the Firewall settings

You can specify whatever ports you want to use for DCC by going to mIRC Options > DCC > Options & see the box on the right that says "DCC Ports". Enter the port range you wish to use there.

Yochai:

Universal Plug & Play support is something that has been requested before, hopefully Khaled will implement the idea in an upcoming version of mIRC.

For now, there are a number of ways you can do this.

if you use a software firewall(zonealarm, blackice), allow mIRC to be run 'as a server' and it will work around this.

If you have a router or are using Internet Connection sharing, route a port (or multiple ports) through your router in succession to eachother, TCP mode, to your computer behind the network.

For example:

route 7000,7001,7002,7003

This will give you a maximum of 4 DCC sends at one time.

This will not affect your ability to receive DCCs.