thank you, but unfortunately i have already tried that. i have essentially tried every combonation of the three ports that Chrome's development team has sent me to get it to work. i have tried it with different ones being the outbound and inbound, along with the different trigger type and public type options (all two of them) and nothing seems to work. i then tried it by putting a dmz on my system, that also did not work. then i tried combining the two, did not work. i think it has something to do with the built in firewall, but i am not sure. i think this because the company suggests tu