Who Still Plays?

Nope, I run XP. I tried changing everything and was still getting the same problem..... I literally did it everywhere I could find a place to add ports, and still the same problem. So I decided to restart my computer and try again. I was only able to join a game for like 5 minutes because I had to run out the door, but it seemed to have been working? Then again, it just randomly works for like 15-20 minutes sometimes before I get booted, then the whole thing starts up again. Maybe it's fixed, maybe not? I will hopefully find out after work today.

I would strongly discourage forwarding/opening all the ports on your router, that's just asking to get hacked.

Bad wording for me. I meant, I opened 6112 and 4000 ports everywhere I could find. I.e. - I wireless connection, wired connection, symantec protection, on linksys via going to the 192.168.1.1 website, and I think that was it? Anywhere I could locate anything to do with my internet connection and it allowed me to allow or make exceptions to ports, I opened 6112 and 4000.

I think I figured it out too. I was playing yesterday, and after about an hour, I got that stupid, "Halt 1646 Error" and my game crashed. When I logged back on, I was getting the stupid Your Connection Has Lost Connection Error like normal. I restarted my computer, and viola, everything worked again. Of course, an hour or so in again, rinse and repeat. At least I'm getting to play now, so I'm happy with the outcome.

Thanks.

I play private servers, since I've been banned from bnet since 2005.