To the contrary, chat has never worked better for me. Bloody fantastic! Not a problem in the world. Fast, efficient.... couldn't have more praise for it. You should give it a try sometime.
In fact, come in to chat now so we can discuss what the problem could be
Seriously though, a lot of people get disconnected on it, i know for me it causes a lot of those blue screens- "protection fault 5675484964694008 has caused a fatal error"- its beyond me why they just don't write "Sorry mate, your computer has just ****** up- please reboot".
BTW- My old ISP used to take about 10 minutes to load just the Nickname entry.... could be that... but I wouldn't take any advice from me considering my wealth of knowledge
about computers.....
Sorry i couldn't be of any help Grendel, chat to ya soon