Well today my Gaim kept crashing, so I had to go download AIM, ICQ and Yahoo. Most work fine, except for some reason Yahoo does not work by default on my network, TSTT seem to be blocking many ports including Yahoo. Mostly likely in their attempt to keep software such as VoIP from becoming more used today. So instead of isloating the protocol and ports for VoIP they are broadblocking ports and only opening a few to allow limited usage. They however totally deny they doing that, yet it the only conclusion I can make after all the network reconfiguring I tried. Further proof is that I got connection of Yahoo through gaim by using port 80. So I had no choice but to fire up regedit and manually edit yahoo registry settings (since yahoo does not provide a interface to edit them) and navigate to the yahoo settings and change the port desination there to port 80, and tada… Yahoo started flawlessly. I still cant get software like eMule, Second Life, or even Unreal 2004 to connect.
Thank you for fucking up the internet TSTT!