Help me please , winsock control error

I am new to this forum, i am looking for a place that can help me learn VB better, im using visual basic 6, im teaching myself , so far the only thing ive had trouble with is winsock controls, for example, im making a program for a game, it will have a login and all that, but first before the login it checks the version, this is my code

Code:

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Private Sub Form_Load()
    Me.Width = 2540
    Me.Height = 570
    On Error GoTo t
    sock1.Close
    sock1.RemoteHost = "98.229.92.252"
    sock1.RemotePort = "1649"
    sock1.Connect
    Dim version As String
    version = "VersionCheck"
    sock1.SendData version
    Exit Sub
t:
    MsgBox "Error : " & Err.Description, vbCritical
End Sub

Private Sub sock1_Close()
sock1.Close
End Sub

Private Sub sock1_Connect()
MsgBox "Made connection to server"
End Sub

Private Sub sock1_DataArrival(ByVal bytesTotal As Long)
    Dim Dat As String
        sock1.GetData Dat, vbString
        If Dat = Me.Caption Then
            Timer1.Enabled = False
            Label1.Caption = ""
            lbl1.Caption = "Connected"
            MsgBox "Welcome to the Otown community"
            Load frmlogin
            sock1.Close
            Timer1.Enabled = False
        Else
            sock1.Close
            Timer1.Enabled = False
            MsgBox "Invalid version, Please get the latest version of The Otown community and uninstall this version", vbCritical, "Invalid version"
            Unload frmlogin
            Unload frmOtown
            Unload frmVersionCheck
        End If
End Sub

Private Sub sock1_Error(ByVal Number As Integer, Description As String, ByVal Scode As Long, ByVal Source As String, ByVal HelpFile As String, ByVal HelpContext As Long, CancelDisplay As Boolean)
        MsgBox "Please contact Ovhan for the matter on error:" & vbCrLf & Number & vbCrLf & Description
        sock1_Close
        sock1.RemoteHost = "98.229.92.252"
        sock1.RemotePort = "1649"
        sock1.Listen
End Sub

Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
        Static loadcycle As Integer
        loadcycle = loadcycle + 1
        If loadcycle < 1 Or loadcycle > 3 Then
        loadcycle = 1
        End If
        If loadcycle = 1 Then
        Label1.Caption = "."
        ElseIf loadcycle = 2 Then
        Label1.Caption = ".."
        ElseIf loadcycle = 3 Then
        Label1.Caption = "..."
        loadcycle = 0
        End If
End Sub

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thats the code for my client which is the problem , and i know theres alot of noob code in there and stuff =P i just dont feel like doing anything over done , anyways when i do this i get the error , "error: Wrong protocal or connection state for the requested transaction or request." what could be wrong?

ps. if anyone has any suggestions for this besides what i got please tell me. i could use any help i could get =P tyvm!

"error: Wrong protocal or connection state for the requested transaction or request."

Did you set your Winsock to the TCP setting?