Can't anyone help me with this?

On a side note, the forum could really use a better search function.

Edit:

a bit more information: I have the steam beta version of Rebellion, 0.9 and i recall being briefly connected once before, but never again afterwards. My rebellion.user file says I am connecting to ico2.stardock.com. A tracert there goes 11 jumps before timing out. I'm assuming that's when it hits the stardock internal netwok, but it keeps on tracing after that.

Pings to the same address report a 100% data loss, of course.

I'd be really happy if someone could help me!

Hmm, there is no ironclad folder in my appdata. There is a user.setting file in my documents, though.

LastGameAddressConnectedTo ""
LastGameHostPortConnectedTo 6112
GameHostPort 6112
GameBroadcastPort 6000
EnableUPnPPortForwarding TRUE

this is the stuff that I got out of there about ports, which one do I need to open up?

Edit: see below

Update:

When I was in IRC a few days ago, it worked fine, but now my ping is back to 3000 at a time where no one else in the dorm is awake. The net-tec staff said they didn't change anything whatsoever to the port settings yet, which means the port is still in it's original state.

This is way over my head.

Edit: now the ping jumps from 16 to 5K and back. What is happening ;_;