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MSN Messenger file transfer doesn't work??
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: France
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Is this a 'feature'?? I can d/l files from others but whenever I try to send them, it says' transfer failed' after a few secs. The downloading is also particularly slow - a friend sent me a 60MB file over our T1 network last night, and in the time he sent it to me, he sent it to about 4 other PC users. I guess this is just another way in which MS has crippled the SW yeah?
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Join Date: May 2002
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i used MSN Messenger's file transfer about two days ago with no problem. not defending MS, but there must be something in your setup that was preventing it.
also take into account there could be alot of network traffic flying around and causing time outs/slow downloads. there is a virus loose in the windows world ya know. thank god i love macs 
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24" iMac 2.13ghz C2D | 15" MBP 2ghz CD | "Soundwave" 60GB 5G iPod
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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i sent a file yesterday via our T1 and was only getting transfer speeds of about 60k/sec. it has to be crippled or something is messed up on our network. i have been able to upload at over 1MB/sec while using bittorrent.
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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I find that I can send/receive from some people with no problems, but with others it just doesn't work. Then I switch to my PC and everything seems to work... wow I never thought I'd say that about Windows XP...
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Moderator  Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Atlanta, GA
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I know my office's net connection has been seeing a lot of slowdown that they're blaming on the latest virus going around. Could be you ran into that (although it doesn't explain why the other file transfers went so fast). I've used the file transfer within the past week and it's gone fine (and quickly) for me (sending files to both Macs and PCs).
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Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Málaga, Spain, Europe, Earth, Solar System
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The MSN client for the Mac is crap, period. I was unable to receive files the other day, disconnected and connected using the PC box I have around (same network as the Mac, same conf, same everything except Windoze and MSN client) it worked.
So... 
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada
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You need to have some ports openned/forwarded and/or set up a proxy for it.
I don't remmember which ports exactly, but I know I found them on DLink's website. I have TCP/6892, TCP/59619 and UDP/21486 noted though.
Here it works both ways.. but yes, transfers are slow 
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