Gaim Upload

[Roger Beever]

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 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 ?
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