[Horace]

Why on earth would anyone attempt a DDoS attack on a residential connection with a dynamic I.P. address? If someone had the resources to carry out an attack do you really think they'd waste them on such a worthless and movable target? There's a lot of reasons why someone may be attempting to connect and a DDoS attack is the most unlikely. To even suggest it is simply scare mongering or due to lack of knowledge and will almost certainly not help in finding a solution to the connection problems.