Folks having msn running on my phone is pretty important to me and I got an N900 even though everyone else I know is going BB. Now coming from an E71 on my flaky 2g Edge service I never had issues staying connected with msn using an app called talkonaut on symbian. I believe this was a jabber client of some sort and would connect to talkonaut servers.

My issue is that no matter what option I try I always seem to get disconnected eventually. It is not an obvious disconnect either since the phone still shows green as online, I know I am not connected since my contact list shows everyone is offline. I have myself added to my coneact list and I always see my self listed as online.

I tried Pecan today and the same thing happened, after about an hour or so all my contacts went offline. I know people are online because if I disconnect and reconnect everyone magically shows online and start msging me

Any idea why that would be happening? Does this basically mean that my edge service is too poor to use msn on my n900? I did some pings and I get like 300 ms or so to google....

I did have some luck with pidgin though the battery life was way too poor for me to get through a day with it.