went to the EA site and went to their tech support chat...guy said there is a list of ports in the instruction manual that tells you which ports mohaa needs. said that my cable isp probably blocked off one of the ports for security reasons and that i should call them about it and read off the ports mohaa needs open. calling them tomorrow morning...
if u guys have problems go to the EA tech chat site the url is:
http://159.153.1.88:4080/chat/world/html/start.html