Hi, I'm not sure how it happened, but I have had a station connect to me, disconnect and then reconnect without any problems I have both the portal and my server on static IP. Hopefully it is going to carry on working !!! Next problem I have to solve but not for a little while is I'm causing problems on the WAN by an extra-long squelch tail so that needs to be looked at Many thanks for your support, we may not have done much but the offer of assistance makes it worth while Regards Ken From: Tim Sawyer [mailto:tim.sawyer@me.com] Sent: 15 April 2012 17:04 To: Ken Robinson Cc: S. Scott; app_rpt List Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Delete server Ken, If you can open an IP address but not ports perhaps you're using the DMZ feature of your router than the port forward feature. Some routers call port forwarding different names. On your router it's called an "inbound rule". I've attached the manual for your router. See if you can make sense of port forwarding configuration on your router. If not we can see about setting it up for you. In that case we'll need some sort of screen share program like log-me-in or current version of skype. -- Tim :wq