Cannot connect mac msn messenger but CAN connect in Windows

[czhe]

Hi all,

Would appreciate some help here. I'm in a school lab and can successfully connect to MSN Messenger in Windows XP but in Mac OS X 10.4.9 it doesn't seem to work. The error message complains about either service might be down or my internet connection has problems.

Is there something I must tweak around in Mac before MSN starts working? I'm completely new to Mac so thanks for any help!

 

[notsofatjames]

there's no tweaks that I'm aware of. It does happen occasionally to me too. Just keep trying and eventually you get on.

 

[PCRanger]

I think the windows version tries to connect through HTTP as well, incase it's normal ports are closed off. I don't think the Mac version has this functionality yet. You could try using aMSN, as this has an option to connect via the HTTP protocol?

 

[Osarkon]

I've always had that problem with the OS X version of Msn Messenger.

It seems to be related to that program, because other alternatives for OS X work just fine. At the moment I'm using Adium, but there are others, namely Mercury Messenger and aMsn which support features more similar to the Windows variant.

 

[aliquis-]

Maybe it can be that it lacks uPNP support aswell?

Just scrap MSN alltogether, worst im there is ;/