I have gone 10 pages into the archives and have not really found any answers to the various threads on why chat does not work for some.

This is the message I get when trying to chat:

"Could not connect to psychcentral.com:8080.

Possible reasons include:

- The chat server system at psychcentral.com is temporarily unavailable.

- Your computer is behind a firewall or proxy server. Please ensure that your firewall permits outgoing TCP connections to psychcentral.com on port 8080."

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The following applies to my computer:

1. I am using IE version 6.0
2. No pop-blocker - although I cannot access certain pop-up windows (e.g. smilies). Using ctrl key does get me in though.
3. Java is installed
4. Cache's etc are cleaned regularly
5. To my knowledge, I have no firewall.
6. Java is checked in the tools, advanced settings box

I have just downloaded Mozilla firefox and attempted to get into chat again, however the same message appears.
Mozilla also changed the appearance and fonts on all my pages, was slow and "sticky". Liked the tabs but that is about it. So I switched back to IE.

Hope someone can assist with the chat query.