Thanks for the reply!

i've tryed many servers including ircnet.demon.co.uk and efnet.demon.co.uk and i've tried connecting to thier ips but I'm still getting the same problems.

I'm using a college computer, could that be a reason? some kind of restrictions?

I'm also getting the error:
The attept to connect timed out.

what to you mean:

In Command2_Click() can you MsgBox RemHost and RemPort
msgbox remhost & remport ?