MSN Messenger and OS X communication problems

[Spanky Deluxe]

Ok, this is really irritating me. I've experienced it on every mac I've used at two seperate locations. Basically sometimes my messages in MSN just don't get through. I only find this out about 5-10 minutes later when I finally get a bounceback. It also randomly signs out. PCs at both locations *never* do this, its only the Macs. Its sooooo irritating.

 

[bigandy]

what sort of setup are you within? behind my uni's firewall, Macs have a helluva time trying to connect to MSN, but if you get round the firewall/VPN, it works fine

if you could describle what's in between you and the vast interweb, it would help...

 

[7254278]

Same thing constently happens to me and it pisses my off to no end!
EDIT: I am behind a router and thats it.

 

[Spanky Deluxe]

Sorry I forgot to go into more detail. Both locations are connected through routers to the internet. At home in Brighton its a straight router/modem thing, at Uni its a seperate modem and router. Both are wireless although sometimes I connect with straight wires, sometimes wireless (it depends if I remembered to bring enough ethernet cables with me when I move between the places). I get the same problems here and there, wired or wireless. It drives me absolutely crazy!!

 

[Spanky Deluxe]

Just a quick note to say that I gave up trying to get Microsoft Messenger to work and instead downloaded aMSN and it not only works like a charm, it also supports my iSight so I can now do video calls with my friends again!

I also tried Adium and Mercury. Adium didn't support video calls and Mercury was plain ugly. It had a horrible configuration gui, lots of the graphics looked pixelised and the video from my iSight came out blue.
aMSN mixed with Growl for the on screen pop ups is a very nice clean and elegant solution with so far no communication problems.

Problem solved.

Phil