Forums Connection Issues What Is Wrong With My DCC Transfer Speeds?

I am having trouble maintaining a decently steady speed while sending files. I have my max cps set at 33000. The speed changes constantly from 33K to 1K to 15.4K to 520 bytes to 35K and so on. I have tested my upload speed with FTP and Bit Torrent transfers and my upstream speed is solid. I only have problems with mIRC. Anybody know what might be going on?

- I am behind a firewall although I do not have it configured through mIRC.
- I am running a WinXP machine and using mIRC version 6.16

maybe its just the person on the other side of the send
if they start getting another file or sending a file to someone
else it will slow their get with you down
also depends on their speed if they have dial up it will always be very slow.
and bittorrent i believe is not just uploading to one user
so if someone has dial up it can still say your upload speed is
100 kb/s
because it works out the all around upload speed

I was in a hurry when I submitted my first post so here is some information to build on what I have already listed. Thanks so much for your input whatsthedillio.

- mIRC 6.16
- No max/min cps is set in mIRC or Sysreset
- Problem is with uploads only
- I am not using a proxy
- Checked with my ISP and they do not cap any form of sends (ie DCC)
- Upload bandwidth is consistant and used fully by Kazza, Bit Torrent, AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Online bandwidth tests, FTP
- Fsend on, pdcc on (999999999), dcc packetsize 4096
- Have tested using different IRC servers and 20+ people with broadband connections ranging from ISDN to T3
- Have tried reinstalling mIRC from scratch, rebooting the computer, and only running mIRC to utilize all bandwidth

I don't think the numbers (999999999) have any effect on pdcc anymore. It's just on or off. Try putting these in "Perform":

/pdcc on
/fsend on
/dcc packetsize 8192

I would have said your ISP was the problem, but you've checked with them...DCC transfers rely heavily upon the slowest connection. That said, DCC wouldn't be the winner of the most stable protocol award, in other words, it's not great for file trading. Did you know mIRC is not a file trading program? It's meant for chatting. I dunno what you're trading, but uploading large files (movies, mp3s, etc.) isn't what mIRC/DCC was meant for, and people often have problems with doing so.

Regards,