Hi Ed,

>Hi Tim, First, I don't know what I'm talking about. But, why not test connect in a separate thread so the app isn't hanging while waiting...

This is the first thing I am working on this morning but I still need to check the port somehow as it hangs indefinately (or appears that way). I am not expecting a return from the process as I have an event that will fire OnConnectionStateChange to let the application know if we connected; or when. But within that connection process that thread will still hang if the port isn't valid. I don't know why the try-catch isn't helping me out.

Thanks
Tim