steuben's connection flow chart

[Lurifax]

Lucky you!

I did some experiments (plus did some more reading at MS). My "error" is that I develop (some say "dabble") and therefore have .NET-tools and some SDK's installed. That seem to be another indredent in the mix leading to the problems. Though I've tracked a few of the others that reported the same error, and at least 2 just had a vanilla XP + MSIE7 and a bunch of games, but no dev.tools - still they got the error.

Anyhow, this is open source so I better head for some dev. _ Think I create a fix - and if it does not blow anything up, I'll post it.

[AndiK]

The flow chart was a big help for me (thanks a lot!) - but in the end, there was one more barrier:

My internet service provider had a firewall installed: It was set to top level security and thus inhibited the communication using port 7777, while ping to laanx.fragnetics.com worked properly.