It really is a stupid question and one I'm not sure you'll know the answer to, but it bugs me anyway. I make a bunch of little MP3's of my own musical ideas and stuff like that, and occasionally I send a few to a friend back home that I used to jam with. The only thing is that they take ten to fifteen minutes to send.
I thought it was his internet connection that was slow. Except for last night when I sent him Killswitch Engage - The Arms of Sorrow, and it sent in a good few seconds. WTF. So it's not his internet? Are my MP3's clogging up the tubes? And is there a plunger?
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Well I sent both via instant messenger. The thing that caught m
Well I sent both via instant messenger. The thing that caught me was that an mp3 ripped from a cd sent in a few seconds but one that I created and encoded via Logic 8 took over ten minutes. And we're talking simple 5-6MB files here. Nothing like an AIFF or WAV file or something like that.
5-6 meg over an instant messaging program is still pretty large.
5-6 meg over an instant messaging program is still pretty large. If you DSL claims 1.5 mb down the throughput on that is usually around 80-125k. The upstream might only be 256k and of course correspondingly lower throughput.
Instant messenging programs also throttle that sort of thing.
Most internet providers claim blistering speeds. The speeds the
Most internet providers claim blistering speeds. The speeds they claim are actually down stream. Usually the upstream rate is significantly slower. Also, the email company might throttle downloads if you sent it via email. The download site might limit bandwith if you used a service. Lots of reasons.