OT : MSN Messenger

Happily connects but no one's ever online?

Tried MSN Messenger, its online brother, and Trillian, all the same.

I've twiddled settings on the ADSL router, made sure it has absolutely
no firewall turned on, checked the hosts file on the XP boxen, disabled
the XP SP2 firewall (disabled by default), reinstalled, tried adding in
the ports that need forwarded to get file transfer, etc working, no joy.

Looking at the logs from Trillian and MSN M they both connect happily
to the server, but no one is online.

Am I going mad?

Is there a "test" user I can check?

Any ideas? I'm stumped.

 

Everyone's hiding from you.

if you want to try it within the time it takes me
to smoke a fag.

 

SteveH scribbled:

Trying in about 2 minutes when v7 has downloaded on *this* laptop...

 

Billy No-Mates?
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Pot.... kettle spring to mind.

 

frag scribbled:

Ok, it works from one laptop using the old Windows Messenger. I suspect
one of the settings I changed in the ADSL/router unbroke it.
(IIRC I turned off multicast broadcast and turned on IPX RIP/SAP?)

 

Rope scribbled:

Got one for sale?

 

frag wrote

I've got one I am not using much, dirt cheap it is. Needs a bit of TLC
mind.

 

Christ, you must be desperate...

 

darsy scribbled:

<g>

Its got to come with a 14 day money back guarantee.

 

Don't do it. You'll be sorry.