I just found an answer to why I couldn't get in the chat room last month.
I am running Vista and Sun JRE 1.6, and the chatroom application was hanging at the "Loading" progress bar. This is what it took to make it work for me.
Right click Command Prompt, run as administrator. Enter this command.
netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=disabled
Source: http://forums.addoninteractive.com/showthread.php?t=3275
I am running Vista and Sun JRE 1.6, and the chatroom application was hanging at the "Loading" progress bar. This is what it took to make it work for me.
Right click Command Prompt, run as administrator. Enter this command.
netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=disabled
Source: http://forums.addoninteractive.com/showthread.php?t=3275