Winsock problem

I'm trying to connect to a remote IP address and port using the Winsock control but it stays in the sckConnecting state forever

Code:

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Winsock1.RemoteHost = REMOTE_IP_ADDRESS
Winsock1.RemotePort = PORT_NUMBER

Winsock1.Connect

Do While Winsock1.State = 6
DoEvents

Loop

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REMOTE_IP_ADDRESS and PORT_NUMBER are constants defined elsewhere


I can ping the ip address ok and if I use an invalid address a different state code is returned.

Any ideas?

HTML Code:

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http://www.winsockvb.com/forums/index.php?

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so you have a server your trying to connect to ?