I'm posting this to inform the masses of a wonderful little prog called Hamachi. It helps people stuck behind firewalls/proxys be able to connect to others to play on OCTGN. So if you have trouble getting connected or hosting, try using hamachi to connect and see if it helps. Its small, easy to install, and has an interface similar to a messenger prog. Once you are connected to a network it just runs in the background and helps create the virtual connection to your peer. Using your hamachi IP as the ip for the game in OCTGN is all you need to do.

http://www.hamachi.cc/

I've been using it to connect so a few players I've met through AIM and without it none of that would be possible.

This is a great program used by our friends at VSRealms. I will sticky this post for future reference

ya me and malgumus here have been useing hamachi for all are games very nice program