Isn't Gmail a little too slow?

[baccilus]

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.

 

[Gigacore]

^ Whats ur Net speed ?

 

[entrana]

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

 

[Gigacore]

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

 

[baccilus]

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.

 

[gaurav_indian]

Yes gmail is slow. I am on 256kbps and you are finding it slow on 2mbps.

 

[Lucky_star]

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.

 

[Choto Cheeta]

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

 

[praka123]

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.

 

[Nav11aug]

Yahoo much much slower than Gmail...

Gmail as said abv demands a stable cnnxn thz it

 

[Garbage]

hey guys...

After all, GMail is still in Beta !!

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

 

[Cool G5]

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?

 

[Garbage]

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

 

[Akshay]

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

 

[Garbage]

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) ??

 

[chesss]

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.

 

[entrana]

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

 

[abhi_10_20]

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

 

[Akshay]

@shirish

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

 

[reshadat]

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