thanks! .. that works ... but I still can't connect to the MUD - I get a positive ping (and its running on zmud on another XP laptop) but it just keeps timing out on trying to connect on CMUD/Vista ..
I tried running CMUD as an administrator and doing "netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disable" in the command prompt but it gives me
Set global command failed on IPv4. The requested operation ...