Ok I got my winsock to connect over the internet between my two applications. I ran one on my box and my friend who is on AOL(aka/ SOL-shi* out of luck!) was running the other one. In the application you are able to listen for a connection or connect. I have a cable modem and I was able to listen for a connection and then he could connect to me and then we could transfer data back and forth however, when he had the app just listening I could not connect to him. I think it has something to do with AOL not allowing him to open a port to listen on but I'm not sure. I'm using port 7777 for testing the app. How can I get arround this problem. Net meeting is able to transfer information back and forth on aol so there has got to be a way.