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    Why does Skype transfer files so slowly?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by passive101, Apr 3, 2008.

  1. passive101

    passive101 Notebook Deity

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    Transferring files to my friends always goes around 2.9k only. It takes hours to send a 25 MB file.

    Is this a problem just between macs and windows versions of the software or with skype in general?

    Why does it transfer so slow compared to other messenger programs?

    This is not a bandwidth issue as everyone has no problems with anything else.
     
    passive101, Apr 3, 2008
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  2. hoolyproductions

    hoolyproductions Notebook Evangelist

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    Same thing for me when running MSN via Adium, I dont know why its like that. I ask people to send me files by email.
     
    hoolyproductions, Apr 3, 2008
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    Adium is slow because it uses the GAIM (Pidgin) transfer protocol, which is GNU and Open source or something, and not very compatible with Microsoft's heavily licensed protocol.

    I would not have expected Skype to Skype transfers should be slow however, as they don't have to negotiate with any third party transfer protocol. I do not use Skype however, so I would not know the reason behind the slow transfer speeds.
     
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  4. Jurisprudence

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    Same here. It's unusable at this stage. If i send a chat to skype i get it the next day, literally. Only way I have found is to use MSN on my pc and send files back and forth via yahoo on adium. then file transfer is faster.
     
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  5. passive101

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    Skype is designed to work on multiple platforms. Sad to see a key feature not work well.
     
    passive101, Apr 3, 2008
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  6. Raymond Luxury-Yacht

    Raymond Luxury-Yacht Notebook Consultant

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    Well my conspiracy theory (?!) is that they keep file transfer deliberately slow, in order to avoid people using the network to share huge files.
     
    Raymond Luxury-Yacht, Apr 3, 2008
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