Isn't Gmail a little too slow?

Whenever i try to upload any file in gmail it takes much longer than yahoo or rediffmail. Why is this so? Can it be corrected? I have seen this happens everytime.

^ Whats ur Net speed ?

yes gmail is infact slow, you can try using outlook express its quicker
u can use auto gmail config to set up ur gmail account in outlook express

hmmm. i didnt find Gmail is slow... but it demands for a stable net connection

I use dataone 2MBPS connection. I am talking especially about the upload speed. Try it and tell. The account also takes a little longer to load.

And i am on linux so can only use thunderbird.

Yes gmail is slow.

I am on 256kbps and you are finding it slow on 2mbps. :shock:

Yah, file uploading is very slow in Gmail.
Use the plain html version or yahoo or the new zapakmail if you want to upload anything.

Well Yahoo New Beta / Gmail / New Hotmail / all these new Ajax based one will take time to load as they load a lot of infomation to start with which gives a really faster interface after its loaded...

where as traditional Interface of Yahoo was faster !!!

Attaching is faster in Rediffmail

Intel_Gigacore said:
hmmm. i didnt find Gmail is slow... but it demands for a stable net connection

ditto!

otoh,yahoo is very slow in my dataone H500 connection which gaves average 217KB/s.

other mail sites are all fast.btwn i use opendns too.

N

Yahoo much much slower than Gmail...

Gmail as said abv demands a stable cnnxn thz it

hey guys...

After all, GMail is still in Beta !!

Is it the reason, why they are still BETA ?? ;-)

shirish_nagar said:
hey guys...

After all, GMail is still in Beta !!

Is it the reason, why they are still BETA ??

I don't know why orkut is still in beta?
Why google keeps most of there projects in beta?

^^ bcoz, if some problem occurs, they can tell, "Our this project is still in BETA stage. U can expect this in FINAL release..."

Inspite of being slow, Gmail has more features den odrs. So worth d wait I guess...

Akshay said:
Inspite of being slow, Gmail has more features den odrs. So worth d wait I guess...

But, what if u have dial-up which disconnects now and then (unfortunately I has) ?? :-(

Workaround:
Gmail allows pop3 access for free! So use an email client
Opera users - Opera has an email client builtin(M2), u can configure Opera to download and send your mail. Goto tools menu > mail and chat accounts. Its pretty simple from then on.

Firefox users - i think there is an extension that allows u to compose your messges without going to gmail.com. Or just use thunderbird.

ya the best thing about gmail is free pop3 i mean what else do you want they alredy give good service

hey...a thread already running on this !!!!

@shirish

If chat is not an issue, gmail shud b fine... if disconn. is frequent n speed is slow, rediff is d best solution.

R

New version of yahoo/rediff/msn are much more slower than gmail....I am on 128 kbps...and didnt find any issue with speed!

N

shirish_nagar said:
^^ bcoz, if some problem occurs, they can tell, "Our this project is still in BETA stage. U can expect this in FINAL release..."

thz exactly wht i was thinkin :mrgreen:

shirish_nagar said:
^^ bcoz, if some problem occurs, they can tell, "Our this project is still in BETA stage. U can expect this in FINAL release..."

Ha Ha.

reshadat said:
New version of yahoo/rediff/msn are much more slower than gmail....I am on 128 kbps...and didnt find any issue with speed!

g mail is slow with me..so use pop most of the times.
Yahoo has become really slow with the new avtar but rediff even with its new interface is blazing fast..never takes more than 2 seconds to open !!!