Thanks for the reply.

I have shut the firewall off and I am running no other anti-virus software.
I have tried starting the client with -cl -ip 127.0.0.1 -port 2300.
I have tried the code from ANET's 3d chat tutorial, also the SED tutorial 25 that deals with mp gaming.

The serves seams to be initializing just fine however the clients never find the server. I am about to break down and learn WinSock LoL!