[Lauren]

Okay... this is a weird one. It's been happening mainly for the last few days, but probably in total about over a week.

I use a gmail account on messenger.

Over the last few days it started showing me as offline to people when I was online. I could send them messages and sometimes they could send me them back, but not all of the time. Most of the time I'd be signed in for about 20 mins at the most then "disappear" even though I showed online to myself.

I did a few things
1) Go back to MSN 8.1.
2) Restore back over a week.
3) Use 'Windows Install Clean Up' to completely remove msn and then reinstall.
4) Look at my proxy settings etc.

Nothing worked.

So I decided to see if it was a problem with gmail, and I got myself a @live.com account. It works. Perfectly.


So can anyone with any tech knowledge let me know what happened? It works now, and I'm happy with my @live.com address, I just wanna know why it happened to me?

I heard there was a gmail server crash on the 27th Feb that lasted a few hours, but surely it couldn't have extended problems to msn?

Anyway, RAWR LONG POST ALERT.

fanks