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Can anyone tell me why sending a file through adium is very very slow? is there something i can do to speed it up?

What Protocol? MSN? I think there is something that microsoft does to limit sending on files that don't go through the official client, but I am not sure. All I know is that MSN in sloooow.

i thought it was because the file has to go through the msn servers (which cause slow tranfers) while the official client supports direct connections.

^^ That's probably it

AFAIK transfering files happens with a direct connection between the two clients.. also, other clients like Proteus have a decent speed.

keesj wrote:AFAIK transfering files happens with a direct connection between the two clients.. also, other clients like Proteus have a decent speed.

MSN does not occur between clients. It uses the server as a proxy. This was the MSN standard until a few versions ago where direct connections were added. libgaim has not updated, so I highly doubt proteus has it, since they rig a daemon program to avoid the GPL nature of libgaim.

keesj wrote:AFAIK transfering files happens with a direct connection between the two clients..

In the newer MSN protocol, yes. In the one implemented by libgaim, no.

also, other clients like Proteus have a decent speed.

I challenge this claim since Proteus's MSN implementation is identical to Adium's.

[edit]Zac beat me to posting [/edit]

Haven't used Proteus in a while so I may be wrong.. but I thougt I always used Proteus for file transfers..

anyway, so libgaim seems to be the bottleneck.. i hope they implement it in the near future..