PureBasic Forums - English

My friends and I share a lot of documents, photos, .mp3s - the usual - over MSN messenger. This can take a lot of time, espically when we want to send large files to a lot of different people.

I've had the idea of writing a program that allows you to choose some files, compress them then send them to people over msn automaticall.

Basically, does anybody know how to get MSN messenger to send a file?

AFAIK, messenger opens a direct connection to your recipient for the file transfer... So that's the max speed you'll ever have

This could be possible if you had an external program to send something like a special keyword, let's say "FILEGETAT:youip:fileid" and the receiver would copy/paste it into the same program running the other side...

Not to good, but an option...

Num3 wrote:AFAIK, messenger opens a direct connection to your recipient for the file transfer... So that's the max speed you'll ever have

MSN is sending files very slow on my machine, Skype is a little faster.
And DC++ is the fastest (using max upload bandwith).

I don't think MSN is using a direct connection.

I mean just prompt MSN to send a file the way it usually does. All I wanna do is compress the file with my program to speed up the transfer time that way.

why would you compress an already compressed file like an mp3 or a jpg? etc..

You could yes optimize data, compress some other data, send in nice bunchs of packets. maybe make it multi threaded by spliting a file into several parts depending on size and go from there. Remember he limit you'll have will be your actual upstream, and if thats over your friends downstream (I think that wont happen on most cases) he will be limited by his downstream.

generally if you can download at lets say 512kbps then you can upload at 128kbps (wont go up from 13kb/s) .. (now, theres some real lame ISP companies doing A MESS with their up and down streams, they send w/e they think they should, or even limit everything, but thats another story, stupids!).

Indeed Messenger file system is ugly, you should start using FTP instead buddie

Get an ftp server.. host your files, share, let your friends upload to your server, etc. that will be better. If you have no experience hosting services, PM me and i'll help you with anything you need, but its quite simple You could even programm a basic ftp server in PB (basic, because thats all you need, send, recieve, rename, delete, make dir, etc).


Cheers

As som of you coulkd know i am developping my own messenger and we had test with peer to peer file transfer beeing 17% faster than the MSN one. In the Moment we have no filetransfer implemented because pb has its thrad problems but we will implement it over an external .exe its just a matter of time.
btw visit www.komani.de (german)
bye Nik