i am not running any firewalls or other programs, when finished giving orders and receiving opp. data the game hangs after several min. then gives the message conn. aborted, the game can be continued using the autosave,then returns to main screen, when reloading same thing happens, as Castle stated we have alot less problems with CMBO, CMBB is just unplayable through IP, i havent played other opp. over TCP/IP yet so cannot compare