New Post: Bad Packet Length Error

Hello everyone and thanks for your help in advance. Completely new to SSH.Net and had created a project for connecting to an SFTP serverdoing the following:

Dim sftpclient As New SftpClient("host", port, "user", "password")

The project worked fine for a few weeks but then began encountering a bad packet length error. In researching, I cam across a few articles suggestingencryption wasthe problem:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10886665/how-to-resolve-a-bad-packet-length-error-in-ssh-net

http://sshnet.codeplex.com/discussions/271671

but I amso new to this, I really don'tunderstand what I am doing. Any helpwould be appreciated.