I was just wondering why MSN Messenger takes so long for people to download files from me and for me to download files from them. I've been trying to send people pictures that I've taken and it takes forever (my upload speeds don't usually go above 3kbps when transferring through MSN) and when downloading from someone else it takes ages as well, (again transfer speeds don't usually go above 3kbps).

I'm on broadband (576kbps) and was wondering why this is happening.

It could be caused by alot of things: a) Youre behind a firewall b) MSN limits speeds c) The person on the other end has a bad connection

Try using AIM, it usually transfers pretty quick if you use direct connect, because then you dont have to go through AIM servers.

-C

MSN do throttle download and upload speeds using their MSN service because there are thousands of people online at anyone time all using MSN.

I agree AIM is 100% better for file tranfer, but if you have to use MSN, download Trillian (Google it, it's free) I use it all the time and MSN file transfers seem to be alot faster, plus you can connect to your MSN,AIM,ICQ, IRC and Yahoo accounts and all at the same time so you dont have to have loads of windows open all the time.

I have 1 mbps speed on broadband but then too the speed of file transfer is too slow

Yeah I agree... and along with that in the new WLM (MSN 7.5 does this too I think), you need to check anything that you send for viruses using either theirs of your virus scanner... which takes a while, plus if you download something like a .jpg and try to open up the location where the file is stored from the window, if will automatically block and or delete the file. How interesting is that? Even though it is not a virus or spyware, just a .jpg file it deletes it automatically. So the only way to can accesse it is to browse to the location yourself.