MSN Messenger inaccessible ?

As of yesterday I can't access MSN with either Messenger 6.0.3, 7.0.0 or Adium 1.2.3. For the last couple of years there has been no problem (I have to use it to contact the nieces on the other side of the world, so it's important to me) but as of yesterday morning I can't get logged in.
Nor can I get to the Messenger webpage (go to msn.com and hit the link near top left), nor can I telnet messenger.msn.com 6901 and nor can a friend in California - I'm on Vancouver Island in BC, Canada. The only error message I get is the lame oone about unable to connect, or you must not be online etc. I can't see anything in the Console logs either.
Can anyone else actually login for MSN messenger?
Any suggestions? (aside from don't use it - see above)
I did think that connecting up my timecapsule might have caused the problem but reconnecting everything as it was prior to that makes no difference.
The network setup is:-
Telus HighSpeed DSL (speedtest says 2800kbps/700kbps) to a 2Wire 2700 modem/router with the wireless turned off, then to the TC with wireless turned on and acting as bridge. Skype, iChat etc all work perfectly well.

It seems that it was the TimeCapsule somehow.
We also discovered that some websites were suddenly very slow to load. Looking at the Activity window for Safari showed that pretty much any content coming from an advert related site (doubleclick.net etc) would fail to connect and so the page was waiting (usually) until the timeout registered. How this could happen is anyone's guess!
This afternoon I tried taking the TC completely out of the picture and all of a sudden I had MSN access and fast webpages. Then I had to reset the TC to only be a backup connected by ethernet
This really seems very strange. How on earth could using the TC wifi
a) block advert site content so totally
b) do so even for one of the machine not using wifi but actually ethernet wired to the 2Wire modem/router and so completely (I thought) ignoring the TC
c) block MSN

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