Gaim Upload

Tim Raats vectrox at home.nl
Sun Jul 18 11:24:41 UTC 2004


Op zo 18-07-2004, om 11:16 +1000 uur schreef Cameron Simpson:
> On 23:39 17 Jul 2004, Tim Raats <vectrox at 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 at 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.
> 
> 

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 ?
-- 
The Unix way of sex 
# unzip ; strip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount ; sleep

E-mail: vectrox at home.nl
MSN:    vectrox1 at hotmail.com

Best Regards,

Tim Raats





More information about the users mailing list