El dom, 18-07-2004 a las 14:33, Rod Haper escribió: > Andrés González Cantú wrote: > > 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/ > >> > >>But what ... is it good for? > >> --Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, > >> 1968, commenting on the microchip. > >> > > > > > > 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 > Dear Rod, You've got the point! When I download mhhh,..., .iso images, for example, from a congestionated FTP server, my system reaches download speeds circa 110 kbps (my other 2 workstations sharing the LAN internet connection!). Why when my friend sends 3 Megabytes files to me via MSN-Gaim I have time to sleep for a while? When my 3 machines are connected to the net I can download a Fedora .iso image in an hour and a half. Maybe I'm prejudiced, but I'm begining to think that the problem is not Gaim but...another, :-) Your Mexican friend, -- Andrés González Cantú agc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx .0. ..0 000
