Forums Connection Issues Connection refused

I've been using mIRC for over a year, but the past 2 days I get a Connection Refused error. I've tried different ports and different servers to no avail. I've even pinged server 208.40.148.152 using the default port 6667 , port 7000 and port 8080.

Please help. I'm going thru IRC withdrawal


EDIT:never mind...problem was resolved by a wonderful helper at the #help channel.

Thanks anyway

Glad to hear the problem is resolved. Help channels do such a great job! If the solution is something that you think might help someone else in the future, please feel free to post it on this thread