Gaim Upload

[Rod Haper]

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 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.
>>
> 
> 
> 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