MSN - users repeatedly signing in?

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Dario D.

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Any other MSN/Windows Live Messenger users on here have that issue where buddies who are ALREADY online appear to randomly sign in again?

You'll be sitting there, someone will be online, and then that little box will popup in the bottom-right, saying *ding!* "User has just signed in"... again.

I'm trying to understand this, because a few of my buddies (not all) are kind of flaky (you know, those people who say stuff, then don't reply for half an hour, and act like they never got your message), seem to do this like several times per hour at times, and I wonder if MSN really is borking around and interfering with the chat, or if they're flakes.

Or... another possibility... I know that at least one person who always does this uses a proxy, and changes IP regularly. (of course, never admitting it) Could it be that changing IP via proxy causes this? (assuming there are proxies that can affect more than just browsers... unless maybe they're using MSN through a site or something)
 
I have never had that to happen to me,but who knows,with windows.It could start it tomorrow
 
Once in a while their authentication servers seem to bounce...force mass re-logins. Same with AIM.

People who have me in their buddy list will frequently see me sign off then quickly back on again..because I'll just different VPN tunnels as I log in and out of various clients of mine doing work on their servers. So my WAN IP address will frequently change.

I suppose those who use those anonymous proxies are the same.

Also consider those users who are on wireless....the signal may drop and reassociate quickly.

I suppose some people with home grade routers that pound the routers hard by torrenting/p2p junk ..you know how home grade routers get overwhelmed with all those concurrent sessions and bog down....some sessions may hang/terminate for a while, possibly causing IM session breaks.

Could probably come up with a few more reasons is I wanted to ponder it some more..but time to refill coffee.
 
I see. Thanks for the insight.

By the way, do you (or anyone) know if there are any anonymous Proxy apps that DON'T only work through a browser? I've searched long and hard to figure this out, but all I can find is stuff that controls one of your browsers - you know, for users who want to harass forums/websites... I haven't seen anything yet that puts your WHOLE connection/computer through a proxy tunnel, though I imagine they should exist.
 
It happens with my contacts too and I never found the reason why it msn does. There is probably something with IPs, as you mentioned proxy servers. When online user changed his/her IP, msn server is probably redirecting connection to his/her computer through availiable ways in internet and when new connection is established, contacts will appear as newly logged in.

And about friends you need to figure it out by yourself, why they are ignoring you or appear AFK. But in case of IP or login issues I don't believe that msn is not delivering messages, so probably your friend has forgot to respond you.
 
Dario D. said:
I see. Thanks for the insight.

By the way, do you (or anyone) know if there are any anonymous Proxy apps that DON'T only work through a browser? I've searched long and hard to figure this out, but all I can find is stuff that controls one of your browsers - you know, for users who want to harass forums/websites... I haven't seen anything yet that puts your WHOLE connection/computer through a proxy tunnel, though I imagine they should exist.
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Some of the anonymous services do run by utilizing a VPN tunnel, so those situations would.
 
I noticed this too, never had a clue why as to it might be happening... Thanx!
 
Something else that might be responsible is the bug in Pidgin that causes a disconnect/reconnect whenever you block someone, a spammer for example. That might visually appear to be a friend coming online even though your client thinks they are online already due to network latency or something.

http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/8681 <- Pidgin bug report
 
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