Some UDP/TDP ports blocked, NOT network-dependent, help?

[Paug]

Helloz. 1st post.

SO it all started one day when my dorm IP's were changed. the change went smoothly and everything worked fine. Except for ventrilo and teamspeak and steam. Ventrilo and teamspeak wouldn't connect to my previously favorited servers ("this server is not running ventrilo/TS") and my steam server search would come up blank. Steam friends works. To my understanding Ventrilo uses TDP, Steam uses UDP, so i'm thinking at this point that its something wrong with my computer (Vista HP).

Then i took my laptop back home, and hooked it up to the internet, hoping that it would work fine. It didn't. Exactly the same problems as before! I rolled back to a previous version of my network card - no help. I started Vista in Safe Mode w/ Networking. Voila, then it worked. I'm not sure what the next step in this diagnosis is. It's not my firewall (F-Secure). All programs are either on Allow or Prompt (for internet access). So this is the university's internet (where the IP's changed first); they went from a LAN in our dorm to direct access to the main university line, with a firewall in between. This doesn't make any sense to me either: they simplified the network so, if anything, i'd be expecting to have greater mobility.

Anyways, any help would be greatly appreciated.

-P

[Paug]

Up, any ideas?

[johnwill]

Well, since it works fine in safe mode, you are obviously loading some security application in normal mode that is blocking ports. First step is disabling ALL the firewalls on the compuer and seeing if that helps. You don't think it's a firewall, but it's a firewall configuration symptom.