Techno help my with msn

[Brighton Breezy]

A message keeps coming up saying I havea fire wall..or that my proxy settings are wrong or missing. It worked fine last night and I have not changed anything since then. Anyone got any ideas?

 

[Jimbo Jones]

I get that......

It normally means my internet connection isnt really connected and it usually works after its re-set.

I have a wireless thingy so I turn the box off and on again.....or it means NTL have cocked up and the set top box needs turning off and on.

Did that make sense?

 

[bigc]

i get that when ntl fucks up, so i'm about as used to it as a whore is to sex

i dunno, check your firewall settings, we need more info before we can help you

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Well I am with AOL...never normally have any trouble with MSN./ The exact message is:

We could not sign you in to msn messenger. It appears you are behind a fireall that does not allow direct connection to the internet. We tried to sign you in through HTTp Proxy but your internet explorer proxy settings are either missing or incorrect. To adjust your IE proxy settings, click the IE tools menu, click internet options, click the connection tab and then click LAn settings.


have no idea what this means. Dotn want to bugger up our AOL connection by tossing about with it. Will it sort itself out? Would it work if I unistalled it and installed it again?

 

[Dunkstar]

Yeah sometimes it does that if it can't sign you in!
NTL or no!

 

[Brighton Breezy]

 

[the right footed denilson]

mate- im with aol and its been doing it all day!!!

f*** knows!! but aol is crap!!

but what do we do i cant live without msn messenger!!

 

[bigc]

email aol

 

[Trigger]

Me and the tart have aol and i cant sign onto my msn or her msn...

Loada shite...

 

[the right footed denilson]

aha!!!

richie, following bigc's advice i went to help on aol. they say they are aware of the problem and are sorting it out!!

yippee!!!

 

[bigc]

i wouldnt go yippee, wait how long it takes them to fix it...lol

 

[the right footed denilson]

is it a mistake??

or do you think they are doing it on purpose- i.e 'we are aol we hate msn, we wont let you use msn on aol' ??!!

and, as such, will never fix it.

hmm

 

[bigc]

i dunno, a ploy to get everyone to use AIM,
i doubt it, but good conspiracy theory there anyway
lol

 

[the right footed denilson]

anyways, ive spoken to some aol bot- it should be back up by tomoz though they cant gurantee it.

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Cheers ears..thought my endless porn searches had finally be uncovered!

 

[Zeitgeist]

Phew...where would we be without NSC? Tried signing into MSN about half hour ago. I kept getting some garbled message basically telling me to f**k off! After much fretting & frustration, I logged onto NSC & found the answer! Going by past experence with aol, I can't imagine them being too keen to help anyone using MSN. I'm sure they'd rather everyone use their own naff AIM

 

[MRRF 10]

is it a mistake??

or do you think they are doing it on purpose- i.e 'we are aol we hate msn, we wont let you use msn on aol' ??!!

and, as such, will never fix it.

hmm

how do you think it broke in the first place?