I found out why I couldn't log into The Matrix Online. Monolith picked ports 10,000 and 11,000 as the ports MxO was to communicate on (as an aside, why not consecutive ports?). Unfortunately, some hatstand Brazilian decided to release a Trojan generator which apparently defaults to using port 11,000 and, as a consequence, that port is on the watched list for my firewall. Something about the way MxO is sending packets convinces KPF to block most of the packets the game expects - some get through; from poking around with Ethereal they seem to be one's not marked with the PSH flag - so I get a TCP_TIMEDOUT error when trying to log in.