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#1
March 1st, 2007, 04:42 PM
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| Problems with Msn Messenger on Mac OSX, Belkin 54g Hi, having a bit of trouble working messenger! Using Mac OSX on my macbook with a belkin 54g wireless router.. No messenger programs work (tried mercury, amsn, messenger for mac etc.) However have been able to connect on other wireless routers.. But on my own router i get the same message 'sign in failed because the service may be unavailiable or you are not connected to the internet' although im writing this post now so i blatently am connected!! any suggestions? any help reaaaly appriciated   |
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#2
March 1st, 2007, 07:02 PM
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| Sounds like you may have to open ports for instant messaging. hxxp://www.electrictoolbox.com/article/networking/open-firewall-msn-icq/ may help but the instructions are for opening ports on another type of router. You should be able to work it out though |
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#3
March 5th, 2007, 03:58 PM
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| hmm that didnt work! note i have got a windows computer plugged into the belkin and that runs messenger fine! ps i have even turned the firewalls off and still nothing cheers anyway |
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#4
March 6th, 2007, 10:13 AM
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| If you have Mac OS X's firewall enabled, make sure that you're opening the necessary ports in that firewall as well. The other option is to try an alternate MSN client, like Adium or aMSN.
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#6
March 6th, 2007, 11:05 AM
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| So check the router's setup. I bet there is some kind of port block on it.
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#7
March 6th, 2007, 01:47 PM
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| Its just got to be your belkins ports then. The Mac version of msn must use different ports to the windows version. And if you can use Iming on different networks then its got to be the belkins fault. |
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#8
March 6th, 2007, 05:01 PM
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| yeh i thought it might be mac messenger needs different ports open to the windows version, it has a preset ports opener thing for messenger on windowds on the belkin setup and that doesnt work! anyone know the mac messenger specific ports that need to be opened? cheers for all your help so far! |
