Attaching pictures to email (hotmail)

Attaching pictures to an email (hotmail and yahoo) is extreemly slow and 'one at time'

 cannot set pictures to smaller size (pixels,,2048) as Hotmail dit automaticly..

used to send 10 - 12 pictures in reduced size,never any problem..

Now I'm "able" to send 4 'livesize' pictures ( 20 to 22 MB) 10 minutes time, which a lot of receivers

cannot accept (To big files) What happening.??

Using Kodak email service for sending pictures for now,,no problem.

         please help me....................nicely-retired