Forums Connection Issues 'unable to create socket'

I get this when i try to connect: unable to create socket.
why

Please don't cross post, it's unnecessary and irritates people therefore may subject you to flame comments

If you use the Search feature, search for "unable to create socket", expand to 'All Forums', 'All Posts' and set the search options to 'And', then you will find a number of threads that have various answers relating to the issue.

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Sorry.. Didn't see the "connection issues" room, until after i'd posted in "mirc help"...

I've removed my windowsXP-built-in-firewall, but it still doesn't work..

What can be wrong??

i HAVE read the other posts, mentality

Does this happen with every network you try to connect to?

Try /server irc.dal.net 6667, /server irc.undernet.org 6667 and /server irc.efnet.net 6667. Make sure you're not using a strange port to connect.

If you can successfully connect to those networks then I guess it's a server-side issue and you will need to contact the network administration for advice.

It could be an external program causing the issue. As Section 6 of the mIRC FAQ (written by Krejt) suggests:

"NetCruiser, Twinsock, and Internet in a Box are not 100% Winsock compliant, and some users experience DCC problems with mIRC and other programs... complain to Netcom or the others... Some people also get the error "unable to create socket" on IBOX and other winsocks. If this happens, try to connect again (choose File/Connect or type '/server'). This sometimes works

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