My article about solving error 80048820 has ranked highly in search engines right from the week I posted it, as a result a lot of people have been referring to it and commenting on it. A few of the comments are people reporting they found another way to solve it, the big one is changing a setting in their router settings.
The first one is posted by S t r e t c H, he gives the steps involved in changing the MTU (maximum transmission unit) size in his NETGEAR wireless router to a value of 1400. This setting can be found in most routers (I think?), usually under WAN settings.
Shane also reports doing the same thing on his DLINK wireless router fixed this problem. Same with he next commenter, Robyn.
So, if you have been constantly getting this error for a while and you know how to change this setting on your setup, give it a try and see if it works. I would like to get some feedback on whether it works or not for those who do try, so I can post some more specific instructions for others.
Sign in issues are a problem many Messenger users face. To help find out what the problem might be, we are presented with an error code, but what happens when there are two error codes at once? I don’t know myself, but I just experienced it.
The 80048820 error I see regularly, usually just when it times out, but the 80048411 I have never seen and I can’t find anyone else who has reported getting it. My guess is it’s just a quirk in the current release of Windows Live Messenger. Would be interested to hear from anyone else who has experienced anything similar.
Just a couple of days ago I got an update prompt while using 7.5.0311 and thought build 322 was being deployed. Sure enough, a post on the Messenger Support Space has appeared about it and claims to have fixed the dreaded 80048820 error which made an appearance with MSN Messenger 7.5
If you haven’t been prompted to update (which is likely if you can’t sign in…), go grab it from the MSN Messenger Web site and see if that darn error has disappeared.
The Messenger Support Space has a new entry on MSN Messenger error 80048820:
Many of you have commented about having problems with MSN Messenger error number 80048820. We are aware of this issue and looking into what are all the possible scenarios to provide a complete list of possible resolutions.
If you’re been plagued by this error since upgrading to MSN Messenger 7.5, go check out the post and follow the steps.
Unfortunately, just looking at the comments you can see there are still many having this problem, so there must be some more scenarios which cause this error.
Original articles: Solving error 80048820 and Another fix for 80048820.
It’s been nearly 3 weeks since I published the article on solutions for error 80048820, since then the article has receiver over 14,000 hits, most coming from search engines. Unfortunately, there are still many users not being able to fix it and often reverting back to MSN Messenger 7.0.
Last night, ViKz was able to fix it by removing what was possibly a redundant proxy server in Internet Explorer. The original article has now been updated with the procedure to remove any proxy settings.
I’m still interested to hear from people who still can’t fix this, even after following all the steps. Leave a comment here or there and hopefully this devil can be abolished!