On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 12:24, Tim Raats wrote: > Op zo 18-07-2004, om 11:16 +1000 uur schreef Cameron Simpson: > > On 23:39 17 Jul 2004, Tim Raats <vectrox@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > | I have a problem when I send files to friends with Gaim. The maximum > > | upload speed of sending files is 6 kb/s. But my normal upload speed is > > | 64KB/s.... How can I increase the speed of sending files ? > > > > How sure are you about this? I ask because the discrepancy is roughly > > a factor of 10, which is suspicious because it almost always means you > > are talking about BITs in one place and BYTEs in another (a factor of 8, > > but protocol overhead will raise the cost per byte slightly, so 10 is > > a handy rule of thumb). If you link is 64kilobits per second (eg ISDN) > > then an upload speed of 6 kilobytes per second is perfectly fine. > > > > Cheers, > > -- > > Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 > > http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ > > > > But what ... is it good for? > > --Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, > > 1968, commenting on the microchip. > > > > > > No, i dont have 64 KiloBITS. I have 512 KiloBITS. 512/8=64 Kilobytes. So > does anybody know how to raise the upload of gaim or is this not > possible ? Do you really have 512K upload most systems are asymmetric. You may have a 1 meg download which would be right. Sorry i can't address the actual problem. Roger
