Ok, looking for any and all brilliant ideas. Running Windows XP Home Edition with cable modem and a D-Link router. I have supposedly listed Echolink as a special application in my router; with ports 5198 and 5199 set as UDP and port 5200 set as TCP. I have Win XP firewall disabled, and I've disabled my Norton Firewall. Yet, when I attempt to connect to a station through echolink by highlighting the station with my cursor and pressing alt-c, I get a connection time-out after thirty seconds. Looked at the help section in Echolink, but other than the port settings, I'm clueless. Any suggestions? Steve Pollo [log in to unmask] Lansing, MI