Solved! On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 02:38, cr wrote: > I've suddenly started having great trouble uploading JPGs of 50K or so to > Trademe (our local New Zealand Ebay equivalent). They seem to be > 'choking' - that is, the first ~10K's go OK, then a slight gap, then a few > more K's, then a longer gap, then a very few K's, then a still longer gap, > and so on - it takes about 3 minutes to upload a 30K JPG! (Bigger ones > just time out). > > This is using Trademe's (javascript) upload page in a browser. Up until > ~2 weeks ago it worked fine.
(snip) A kind list member said (in a private post) "Maybe MTU problem" (I'd never heard of a MTU!) For any other newbies' benefit - MTU = Max. Transmission Unit ( roughly ~ packet size) Typical values for use with PPP are 500-2000 (so Google says) For ppp in Debian, can set it by uncommenting the line in /etc/ppp/options to read e.g. mtu 1024 In my case, 1024 improved things but wasn't the perfect cure, mtu 512 fixed things completely, I just did a 160K upload and it went straight through. cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
