AIM on the fritz

[naraht]

AIM is my preferred instant messenger service. Back in August, about a week before I came back to Hollins, I decided to upgrade the AIM on my computer to the latest release to stop that annoying popup. Now AIM refuses to work. I've downloaded other versions, installed, uninstalled, reinstalled, and AIM still refuses to work.

I contacted AOL Helpdesk by phone and got cut off twice. I contacted AOL Helpdesk by email. I just recieved their third "your email is very important to us" message. I have a feeling they're trying to tell me bend over just a little bit more, we need to stick it to ya just a bit deeper...

Downloaded Trillian. That refuses to work. YIM and MSN aren't working either. I'm reduced to using AIM Express, AIM's little Java applet messenger.

I'm barely computer literate. (Remember the HTML posts?) I'm hoping that this problem is easily fixed. Anyone have any thoughts on what to do?

Hrm...part of me is wondering if the problem is not in the messanger, but in the internet connection. How excatly are you currently connecting to the internet? It's possible that especially if you have a router, to ports are being blocked...


On the otherhand, I've never trusted the AIM client, and do use trillian. Have you tried completely uninstalling AIM, then reinstalling? (or then reinstalling trillian, etc)