Msn Messenger prob

[<^UmAyR^>]

Recently my MSN has gotten screwed, when i try to log in, it says loggin in...stays like that for a while, and eventually goes back to the main screen saying click here to sign in....has anyone else been experiencing these problemS?

[Shii]

Originally Posted by <^UmAyR^>

Recently my MSN has gotten screwed, when i try to log in, it says loggin in...stays like that for a while, and eventually goes back to the main screen saying click here to sign in....has anyone else been experiencing these problemS?

MSN is locking out older clients and many third-party clients, because their network is "Mine Mine Mine" and they won't let other people use it. They started this a few weeks ago.

Try upgrading to a newer client. Also, you ought to use the Jabber network which will never lock you out.

[Superchop]

Just out of curiosity...where did you hear that MSN is locking out older clients?

Cause this happens to me every once in a while...where i cna't sign in...or access my email...but all i have to do is wait a while and retry and it works just fine...

[Wandering_Youth]

Originally Posted by Superchop

Just out of curiosity...where did you hear that MSN is locking out older clients?

Cause this happens to me every once in a while...where i cna't sign in...or access my email...but all i have to do is wait a while and retry and it works just fine...

Dito, I haven't heard anything about that either. However, I couldn't log into my MSN earlier, but now it works. It seemed like the MSN server was down or something because my buddies PM asking if I couldn't get on earlier.

[Superchop]

I retried and now i can log on as well...like Wandering_Youth said...the MSN server was probably down...

like i said...this happens every so often...and it's not something to worry about...you just gotta retry later

[ZGMF-10A]

i couldn't log on for like half an hour now i can log back on.... just got back online like 10 minutes ago.......

[[Titan]]

I have this every once in a while too (once every two months or so), fortunatly, I still have a backup account (which seems to be on a different server). But most of the time, my main account works after waitning for an hour or so, guess it's just a server problem.

[SirJeannot]

if i get disconnected (hardware), i next login fails saying that my password is wrong ... all the time.
if i try again, it's ok

/me uses trillian2

[Shii]

Originally Posted by Superchop

Just out of curiosity...where did you hear that MSN is locking out older clients?

It's a Reuters story I believe.

http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/.../19/messenger/

[RavenChild]

i wasn't able to log in last night but that was because of some service that they were doing to their systems. i think it is back up by now. in my opinion, even when msn messenger does not work, it's still better than AIM.

EDIT: Spelling

[ElvenPath]

Same happened to me yesterday night, couldn't log in. I checked the MSN status page but it reported that all systems were stable and working.

[Superchop]

Originally Posted by ashibaka

It's a Reuters story I believe.

http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/.../19/messenger/

ok, but they only lock out people with the older version of MSN (before 6.0) and 3rd party programs that are using their servers...so unless your running an older version of msn...or somehting that isnt' msn...your fine...

and yes...i think msn is better then aim...even though i use aim a lot more then msn...