Re: Instant Messenger Connectivity Problems

From: Sybren Stuvel (sybrenUSE_at_YOURthirdtower.imagination.com)
Date: 07/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:52:07 +0200

Cheerful Pickle enlightened us with:
> 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.

Weird. I only use Jabber (my Jabber server has MSN and ICQ support)
and Gaim 0.79 never gave me any trouble.

> 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 think so.

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

Call your ISP and ask them if they can find anything in their logs.

Sybren 

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