cell phone message take 4 hours?

I just set-up my profile to accept cell phone text messages. Problem is,
these messages take 4 hours for the cell phone to receive. The bottleneck
can't be my cell provider because if I use the same address in something
like OE using my ISP account, the message is received on my cell in a split
second. Messenger --- cell phone text messaging certainly isn't the most
efficient way to send a message. Am I doing something wrong or is the
bottleneck at the MS end?

Thanks,

Dave

Greetings Dave,

Do you happen to be using Rogers AT&T? If so, this is a known issue. Unfortunately at the
moment, both MSN and Rogers point fingers at each other -- since all the other canadian
providers (Telus, Bell, Fido, etc.) don't have the problem, it does seem to be related to
Rogers.
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Windows MVP, Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

"David Shorthouse" wrote in message
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I just set-up my profile to accept cell phone text messages. Problem is,
these messages take 4 hours for the cell phone to receive. The bottleneck
can't be my cell provider because if I use the same address in something
like OE using my ISP account, the message is received on my cell in a split
second. Messenger --- cell phone text messaging certainly isn't the most
efficient way to send a message. Am I doing something wrong or is the
bottleneck at the MS end?

Thanks,

Dave

Jonathan,

I do indeed use Rogers AT&T, so I guess that's the issue. Thanks for the
reply.

Dave

Greetings Dave,

Do you happen to be using Rogers AT&T? If so, this is a known issue.
Unfortunately at the
moment, both MSN and Rogers point fingers at each other -- since all the
other canadian
providers (Telus, Bell, Fido, etc.) don't have the problem, it does seem
to be related to
Rogers.
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Windows MVP, Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

"David Shorthouse" wrote in message
a...
I just set-up my profile to accept cell phone text messages. Problem is,
these messages take 4 hours for the cell phone to receive. The
bottleneck
can't be my cell provider because if I use the same address in something
like OE using my ISP account, the message is received on my cell in a
split
second. Messenger --- cell phone text messaging certainly isn't the
most
efficient way to send a message. Am I doing something wrong or is the
bottleneck at the MS end?

Thanks,

Dave