After weeks of trying to resolve this I still haven't found any way forward. The number of people who are now telling me they have the same problem is growing by the day, and it is really really fustrating. I've emailed MS but they haven't replied.
I realise this isn't a messenger plus issue but can anyone here help? All the forums I've read suggest that this is a problem with ADSL losing connection and having to re-dial, during which time msn eats any messages that you send or receive, without any warning. After about 15 secs of this 'frozen' behaviour msn logs out.
I've tried keeping open the Window's Performance monitor set to monitor total bytes/sec for my wireless adaptor, to see if the net connection really does drop out around the time messenger goes crazy. It's really hard to tell tho, and sometimes i can use firefox with no trouble while msn is doing it's crazy thing. Is there any way I can constantly monitor whether my ADSL is connected and get a warning when it disconnects?
I've tried using Yahoo messenger over the past few days but it seems like it has the same problem. Is there any way to increase the time that messenger waits before it logs out, and some way for it to store messages and not dump them?
If this really is an ADSL issue then I need to work out why my router is disconnecting so frequently, but it's hard to tie down exactly where the problem is at the moment.
Any help or suggestions really are gratefully recevied. It's a reall bummer having not been able to use messenger for the last few months
UPDATE. I have installed a utility that shows my download and upload speed constantly, updated every second in a graph. I have just sat here for ten minutes with some youtube videos playing and surfing the web, while logged in to two msn accounts with messenger live plus.
my internet connection remained absolutely fine, my download speed was around 75kB/s. youtube never faltered, my adsl connection wasn't lost, and i was surfing the web as well which was fast, snappy and never faultered. AND YET messenger logged me out twice over that same ten minutes stating connection problems. if i had lost my adsl connection my router would have waited 15s before reconnecting. i would definately have seen the connection drop out in the graph, youtube would have stalled downloading the videos and i wouldn't have been able to load web pages. but that did not happen.
so come on guys, this is clearly not an adsl or net connection problem. what has happened to messenger recently to cause these connection problems? what can i do to get it back? somebody please help
