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MSN Messenger strange behaviour.
Another strange thing. After a few days of inability to connect with my
brother in England, everything started working again today. However, after a few minutes of conversation, he told me his system said I had signed off the net. We continued talking for several minutes without trouble. Then I tried a whiteboard message and it was "undeliverable". My brother returned one and it hung. Then Messenger chirped, rebooted, and asked me to sign in again. After that I received his message on the whiteboard, but mine to him stayed undeliverable. All this time we continued talking without trouble! We are both using MSN Mess 5, he on Win ME dial up, and I am on XP on cable. Try that one, Jonathan. Bob Ross |
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MSN Messenger strange behaviour.
Greetings Bob,
Lots of things could've occurred which could have resulted in suddenly being able to connect to your brother (but that's another issue entirely). Each Messenger conversation (text-based) has its own connection, so if you get disconnected from the main server, conversations will still continue going. You could've been disconnected just randomly, or because of a lack of bandwidth (or many other reasons). Voice conversations also operate on their own connection (and processor thread) independent of Messenger. If you closed your conversation window, then reopened it, and then send your Whiteboard request, most likely it would've gone through. ____________________________________________ Jonathan Kay Windows MVP, Messenger Associate Expert http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/ Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com "Bob Ross" wrote in message ... Another strange thing. After a few days of inability to connect with my brother in England, everything started working again today. However, after a few minutes of conversation, he told me his system said I had signed off the net. We continued talking for several minutes without trouble. Then I tried a whiteboard message and it was "undeliverable". My brother returned one and it hung. Then Messenger chirped, rebooted, and asked me to sign in again. After that I received his message on the whiteboard, but mine to him stayed undeliverable. All this time we continued talking without trouble! We are both using MSN Mess 5, he on Win ME dial up, and I am on XP on cable. Try that one, Jonathan. Bob Ross |
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MSN Messenger strange behaviour.
Hi Jonathan,
The interesting part was that we had full audio and video all the time, even while I was supposedly shut down. Thanks for the response. Bob Ross "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote in message ... Greetings Bob, Lots of things could've occurred which could have resulted in suddenly being able to connect to your brother (but that's another issue entirely). Each Messenger conversation (text-based) has its own connection, so if you get disconnected from the main server, conversations will still continue going. You could've been disconnected just randomly, or because of a lack of bandwidth (or many other reasons). Voice conversations also operate on their own connection (and processor thread) independent of Messenger. If you closed your conversation window, then reopened it, and then send your Whiteboard request, most likely it would've gone through. ____________________________________________ Jonathan Kay Windows MVP, Messenger Associate Expert http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/ Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com "Bob Ross" wrote in message ... Another strange thing. After a few days of inability to connect with my brother in England, everything started working again today. However, after a few minutes of conversation, he told me his system said I had signed off the net. We continued talking for several minutes without trouble. Then I tried a whiteboard message and it was "undeliverable". My brother returned one and it hung. Then Messenger chirped, rebooted, and asked me to sign in again. After that I received his message on the whiteboard, but mine to him stayed undeliverable. All this time we continued talking without trouble! We are both using MSN Mess 5, he on Win ME dial up, and I am on XP on cable. Try that one, Jonathan. Bob Ross |
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MSN Messenger strange behaviour.
Hi Bob,
Although realistically this shouldn't happen, sometimes it does, for example if Messenger crashes (and you're at the "sorry for the inconvenience screen"), voice/video will continue operating until Messenger's process is actually completely closed. ____________________________________________ Jonathan Kay Windows MVP, Messenger Associate Expert http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/ Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com "Bob Ross" wrote in message ... Hi Jonathan, The interesting part was that we had full audio and video all the time, even while I was supposedly shut down. Thanks for the response. Bob Ross "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote in message ... Greetings Bob, Lots of things could've occurred which could have resulted in suddenly being able to connect to your brother (but that's another issue entirely). Each Messenger conversation (text-based) has its own connection, so if you get disconnected from the main server, conversations will still continue going. You could've been disconnected just randomly, or because of a lack of bandwidth (or many other reasons). Voice conversations also operate on their own connection (and processor thread) independent of Messenger. If you closed your conversation window, then reopened it, and then send your Whiteboard request, most likely it would've gone through. ____________________________________________ Jonathan Kay Windows MVP, Messenger Associate Expert http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/ Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com "Bob Ross" wrote in message ... Another strange thing. After a few days of inability to connect with my brother in England, everything started working again today. However, after a few minutes of conversation, he told me his system said I had signed off the net. We continued talking for several minutes without trouble. Then I tried a whiteboard message and it was "undeliverable". My brother returned one and it hung. Then Messenger chirped, rebooted, and asked me to sign in again. After that I received his message on the whiteboard, but mine to him stayed undeliverable. All this time we continued talking without trouble! We are both using MSN Mess 5, he on Win ME dial up, and I am on XP on cable. Try that one, Jonathan. Bob Ross |
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