An Incredible Hidden Feature in WLM “Windows Live Messenger”
Days ago, while I was working, I tried to send my coworker a file through Windows Live Messenger as a shortcut in presence of broadband. The file was about 20 MB, as soon as my coworker accepted to receive the file, it arrived in just a moment! I was astonished, I was certain that broadband connection won’t permit that speed. I thought it was due to the LAN that was configured with AD and ISA servers that may accelerated the connection. I went home while being thinking about it.
Today, I tried to send a file over my home network with same method through WLM while I’m on 1 Mbps ADSL. The file size was 24 MB, I accepted from the other PC and it was arrived in less than 3 seconds!
What I realized lately, that WLM “Windows Live Messenger” in fact is not only an Internet based IM client, but also a LAN file transfer manager! It could determine that both clients are for same network “maybe IP test” and soon instead of sending file across Internet, it sends file over LAN without need to pass through very very long routes worldwide and back do destination.
I tried to search web for articles about this features, however I didn’t find any results or news from the Live Messenger team yet.
I hope that everyone enjoy this feature! Thank you Microsoft! Thank you Live Messenger!