Port Strangeness

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From: news.microsoft.com (scorpion_53061_at_nospamhereeveryahoo.com)
Date: 03/06/04 

Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 10:04:01 -0600

I write an windows vb.net application that requires the use of a couple
different ports

23
1433

However on some networks (never end users on a stand alone connection) it is
running on there is a lot of activity on the 9000 series of ports for the
enduser. For whatever reason this also seems to knock the end user off line
at times. I have only had this reported on Win 98 and Me machines. XP and
2000 never seem to have a problem.

Can anyone venture a guess on what might be happening here?

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