MSN IM between two PCs on a shared connection

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July 31, 2006 at 1:16 pm #24255

neilania
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G’day,
I share a connection with one other pc using a router and adsl broadband. we transferred a few files using msn messenger and it went Zap so fast… I’m wondering if the files were direct transfer or went through the isp first.. it seems unlikely to me that it could go that fast through a provider that is a hundred miles away by copper phone line then back to the other pc .. like two hundred megs in about ten seconds. Does anyone know if it just goes through the router and not through the wan with msn IM?
Oh,, I have static ip and of course the router hides the ips of the lan pc’s
Cheers n beers.. Neil

July 31, 2006 at 8:30 pm #149381

shifter
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File transfers enable Peer-to-Peer mode which means you’d be directly connected together.

August 1, 2006 at 8:27 am #149382

neilania
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G’day shifter,
wow really.. that’s great as I was always putting stuff on a cd for my nephew on the other pc… I pay dearly for my dload limit of 20 gigs and often have to be squeezed to 64k till the start of the next month. when I exceed it.. it’s damn slow..
Thanks for that info.. Cheers Neil
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