[X4U] Skype

[Paul Moortgat]

I tried with a friend who has the same provider (and same speed) and  
it's still 0.3 to 0.5 Kb/sec.  That other friend with only 128 Kb/sec  
upload manage to have 5-7  when he send something to China where they  
only have 2 Mb lines.  There must something wrong at my providers place.

Paul Moortgat


On 13 Sep 2006, at 10:19, Simon Forster wrote:

>
> On 13 Sep 2006, at 03:27, Michael Elliott wrote:
>
>> Yes, Paul, but what is the upload speed from the person who you  
>> are downloading from?  That's the question that is so hard to  
>> figure out.  (Although one would think that if there is enough  
>> bandwidth to use Skpe audio chatting, that there would be enough  
>> to quickly download a file).
>
> I don't think it's that simple in as much as Skype appears to run  
> some sort of quality of service (QOS) routine - which makes sense.  
> Certainly, I've noticed that if someone sends me a file as I'm  
> (audio) chatting to them, the speed is miserable - like, give up  
> miserable. However, same person, (text) chatting and file comes  
> down OK(ish). Although generally my perception of Skype's file  
> sending service is that it's slow. Fine for small files but send  
> bigger files some other route.
>
> Simon Forster
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