Cannot connect to google talk using empathy/pidgin after upgrading

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Published on 2010-10-21T14:38:16Z Indexed on 2011/02/18 15:34 UTC
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I can't seem to be able to connect to google talk using either pidgin or empathy after upgrading to Ubuntu 10.10 (fresh install).

I do not know why... empathy just writes "Connecting ..." forever and never connects. What can I do from there?

Google talk's web interface works just fine for me so I doubt it is a firewall issue.

EDIT: In fact sometimes it's able to connect (empathy), it just takes a LOOONG time (I'd say about 5 mins), longer than I am willing to wait. On the other hand, the web interface is able to connect in seconds.

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