Can no longer connect to mining pools.

[HungDaddy]

I have been playing around with mining for about qa week now. I finally had everything running smoothly and tweaked to get the best performance from my graphics card.

I have been using phoenix, but also set up and tested guiminer, and reaper. I was running all day yesterday up untill I went to sleep. When I woke up I phoenix kept showing unable to connect to server messages. I tried my other mining programs that had been working before, but they had similar issues. I tried changing to a different pool in case it had something to do with that, but I cannot coonet to any of them.

I have no idea why it would just stop working like that. I played around with firewall setting and even disabled firewall entirely, but it didnt make a difference. I'm pretty much scratching my head at this point. Up untill now I have just been able to browse these forums to get questions answered, but I'm really scrathing my head here. I have no idea what went wrong.

This is my config file for phoenix.

[general]
    autodetect = +cl -cpu
    verbose = Enable
    backend = http://[worker]:[RPCpw]@mtred.com:8337

[cl:0:0]
    autoconfigure = False
    kernel = phatk2
    name = GPU 0
    disabled = False
    worksize = 128
    vectors = False
    vectors4 = True
    bfi_int = False
    aggression = 12

[HungDaddy]

And now it works again, without changes or explanation. It's still driving me nuts, I want to figure out what went wrong so I can prevent it from happening again, or at least know what to do if it comes up again. I know I need to set some backup servers for if my pool goes down, but like I said I couldn't connect to other pools earlier either.

I'm wondering if something might have happened on the ISPs side. Like they saw excessive and sudden activity on port 8773 and blocked it, but I don't know that could even do that.