hi everyone! ok...dumb question time!

ok not long ago the setup was:

dreamweaver, mysql, apache, php, on my computer

now i have php mysql hosting with fasthosts
i got ftp and email info, then i went into their control panel and added a database

heres roughly what fasthosts gave me for my database

Your MySQL database settings
Server Name: mysql555
Server IP Address: 555.555.555.555
Database Name: websitedb
Database Username: username
Database Password: password



in dreamweaver i put in :

connection name: mysql555
mysql server : 555.555.555.555
user: username
password: password
database: i tried 2 things.

1) i clicked the select button to choose the database, it started to connect to my ftp server for the website, which i hadn't typed in for this, so it must have got that from the testing server setup or something. It gave me a timeout error anyway.

2) as i knew the name of the database i wanted i typed it in and clicked test and it did the same - timeout error

any idea what i am doing wrong?