Re: Gaim Upload

From: Rod Haper (rhaper_at_houston.rr.com)
Date: 07/18/04

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    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@home.nl> 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@zip.com.au> 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
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