I'm having one of the weirdest issues ever. When I am at home on my apartment complexes ethernet connection my Yahoo Messenger constantly disconnects me. Sometimes it will look to me as if I'm signed on, but I'm not. I can send people messages and no one gets them, and vice versa. I have a Mac and I use iChat to connect to AIM. Well I cannot get on AIM through iChat at all. It always says it can't find the AIM server, or something like that.
Well I finally called the ISP last night and talked to this dude that had no idea what I was talking about. He recommended that I uninstall Yahoo and reinstall the non-beta version. I did, same problems persist. I reinstalled the beta version and same problems still. So I decided to test my own theory. I came to the public library and got on their wireless. I've now been chatting on AIM and Yahoo for more than 20 minutes with no issues whatsoever.
So, I'm right and ISP guy is wrong. It is their problem and they need to solve it. He told me he would have to pass it up to an upper level tech when/if I call back because he has never heard of anything like this. I guess these rat bastards are just worthless. Because when I had an issue with not being able to download the software updates from Apple they said the problem was with my machine. Again, I came to the library and downloaded the updates in a flash. I still can't download my updates, so every couple of weeks I have to come to the library to download them. I guess this is the price you pay for living in shitty apartments with shitty internet service.
Does anyone out there in fubar land have any clue as to what might be going on? I am calling them back tonight after I get my homework done at the library on campus. But I need some insight, does anyone have any?
