thanks for the suggestion,,i did ring them at the time and asked why i keep getting disconnected,,he said it was something to do with "pinging" lol ,,,wotever that maybe lol,,,i asked was it their fault or my server and he said it was not necessarily either,,,so i am none the wiser,,,problem started about 6 months ago,,,i have to uninstall and then download again,virtually everytime i play,,,so frustrating,,,was sitting with a decent stack at the time and had been lookin forward to it all day,,,oh well,,,try again next time i guess !!!!!