El sáb, 17-07-2004 a las 20:16, Cameron Simpson escribió:
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/
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Dear Cameron,
Two days ago a friend of mine send me an audio file ("Seet Home Alabama", by the way, ;-). I was using Gaim with the MSN protocol because my friend uses Windows. My internet connection is 1024 kbps, I have a little LAN at home and my other two workstations were turned off, so my bandwidth was not penalized, and my download speed never raised 6.3 kbps. I really don't think this is normal. Even more, every time this friend send me some file via MSN Messenger-Gaim (MSN plugin) the same speeds are reached.
Before someone points it out, I must say that my friend's internet connection is also 1024
kbps.
Any clue?
I think I know the reason but I will reserve my thoughts.
Yours very truly,
I don't think your transfer rate problem is due to Gaim. I just ran a test to check the file transfer speed on my system. I transfered a random file (up2date-3.1.23.2-1.i386.rpm - Note: Yahoo limits file transfers to less than 1 MB size) using Gaim from my AOL IM account to my Yahoo IM account which is 805872 bytes (= 786.98 KB) in size and it took 17 second to upload. This translates to an upload rate of 47404 bytes/second (= 46.29 KB/sec). Downloading the test file took 7 seconds which is 115124 bytes/second (= 112.42 KB/sec). I'm using a RoadRunner broadband cable internet connection, FC2 and Gaim v79-0.FC2.
Are you sure that your ISP isn't imposing a 64 kbit/sec upload rate limit? Or perhaps MSN is limiting the transfer rate?
--- Rod
