Messenger Question

[Guest hte]

Hi,

I am on a plan that charges me based on how many kB of data i send and receive over GPRS. I want to know if msn messenger and agile messenger transmit any data when i am signed in but not sending or receiving messages. I would like to leave them on all the time if they do not. Thanks.

[Guest squall]

they do, but not a great amount. for example everytime someone signs in, and a ping signal to check you are still connected. however i understand there s a problem with the orange netwrok which results in the connection timing out after a couple of minutes anyway!

[Guest christianp]

Hi,

I am on a plan that charges me based on how many kB of data i send and receive over GPRS. I want to know if msn messenger and agile messenger transmit any data when i am signed in but not sending or receiving messages. I would like to leave them on all the time if they do not. Thanks.

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I did some experimenting with msn a while ago and it takes about 15-20kb to sign in, and nothing really noticeable to just stay signed on, and hardly anything when you're talking to someone. The connection does time out after a few minutes of inactivity though, so unless you can get round that you won't be able to leave your phone signed in all day.

[Guest Alien18]

I did some experimenting with msn a while ago and it takes about 15-20kb to sign in, and nothing really noticeable to just stay signed on, and hardly anything when you're talking to someone. The connection does time out after a few minutes of inactivity though, so unless you can get round that you won't be able to leave your phone signed in all day.

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Not sure if this helps or not but if you follow the following menus:

>Settings

>Data Connections

>Then Press Menu>Options

There is and idle disconnect option that disconnects you after a certain period of inactivity.

Having said that mine is on "None" and so should stay connected constantly, but i have experienced the disconnection after a short period of idleness in msn but it doesn't disconnect everytime.

Anyway, I hope this helps or is at least worth looking at.

[Guest christianp]

Not sure if this helps or not but if you follow the following menus:

>Settings

>Data Connections

>Then Press Menu>Options

There is and idle disconnect option that disconnects you after a certain period of inactivity.

Having said that mine is on "None" and so should stay connected constantly, but i have experienced the disconnection after a short period of idleness in msn but it doesn't disconnect everytime.

Anyway, I hope this helps or is at least worth looking at.

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Looking at my phone, mine's set to None as well. Maybe the smartphone msn client doesn't send keepalive messages to the msn server, so it gets dropped...