ok first of all yes i tried searching. ok here we go, im using mirc and invision on a college network. the problem is i can only connect to certain servers (rizon works). the others say connection timed out. i dont know anything about ports but i noticed while connecting to rizon it has (6661) and the others usually have (6667). is there a way to force it to use 6661 for all servers? also i went into options and chose a US efnet server and changed the "ports" option. i simpley changed the first part of the range, it said 6666-6669,7000 and i changed it to 6661-6669,7000. it then connected but it said (6668) while connecting. i dont have any idea what these changes did or why they worked. any info would be gerat. i dont want to sit there and change the port options for every single server because i want to be able to click on links from sites such as packetnews.com and have it connect right away. any suggestions?