A mate of mine is currently unable to connect to MSN messenger. Everytime he tries to connect it says the "Default Gateway is offline". Does anyone know what this means who how to resolve it? i think he also said he is getting error 800488069.

Try it another day... (Could be a temporerally failure) Otherwise try it on another computer. (maybe there is something wrong with that MSN) Or let somebody else try it on his computer. (Maybe an account error) If neither of these 3 works, reinstall it, or get Windows messenger... Gender doesn't matter in the Computing world. Commom sence does. Don't forget that.

Tell him to disable windows firewall and also to make sure his firewall is not blocking MSN Messenger. Make sure MSN is allowed to access the network. Is he running Norton 2005 by any chance as this sometimes also blocks Messenger.

Same problem happened to me friend But i just cannot understand wats happening Even my pc is not firewalled its occuring the error like you some number brijeshpatel

@brijeshpatel: Try the things I named above... If it occoured just like that, while it has worked you must check what has changed and al... If it hasn't worked at all... then it could be if you are behind a router... those have a firewall on their own. Gender doesn't matter in the Computing world. Commom sence does. Don't forget that.

for JoMa you are ryt that i m behind router but i dont have the ryt for access it so without the ryt access how can i change the firewall setting if the router is firewalled ! Even i ve formatted my pc 2 times because of this error So plss plss give me the solution if u could find Thanx JoMa brijeshpatel

I need help!---Whenever I try to sign in to msn messenger it says:"Signing into msn messenger failed because the service is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later." It has been saying this for over a week now. Also whenever I try to check y mail it never works. Its like theres a virus for things that have to do with MSN. Please help. Nikkida