Instant Messenger Connectivity Problems

From: Cheerful Pickle (cheerfulpickle_at_net-venture.compostheap)
Date: 07/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:38:40 -0700

Hi, gang,

I am being driven crazy by dropped connections on instant messenger
services. At first, I thought it was my GAIM. With Gaim, 0.78, I was
having occasional trouble maintaining connections, especially with Jabber,
ICQ and MSN, however also some with Yahoo and AOL. When Yahoo developed a
terminal case of not being able to read my password, I upgraded to Gaim
0.79. However, there was no change.

Today, I installed AIM 1.5.286 for Linux and Yahoo Messenger 1.0.4 for
Unix/Linux. I also deleted my Gaim 0.79 and replaced it with Gaim 0.80.
With the Gaim, I only signed on to ICQ, MSN and Jabber. The latter two
were as bad as ever and, since I almost never use them, I deleted them.
Switching to Yahoo Messenger solved the problem of getting online with
Yahoo. However, I still have the same level of trouble maintaining a
connection with ALL of them. Every five to ten minutes I have to
reconnect at least one of them.

I also have some trouble listening to streaming audio from web sites (keep
losing the connection). There may be a link between the two problems. I
don't know.

I know that with dial modems, that kind of problem is relatively common.
However, I use a one megabaud cable modem connection.

I use Mandrake 9.2 and KDE 3.1.3 in addition to the above.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thank you. 

-- 
Andy Rugg -- The Cheerful Pickle
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