How do you make your uploads run faster?

You run behind him and yell... go upload, go, yes, you can do it, come on, a little fast, yes, go upload... and so on.

ok, i'm a little silly this morning. but it was the first idea coming to mind.

you can check if you have a upload speed limitation in the preferences which is a lot lower than you actual upload capacity. if that is the case you could change that. but i wouldn't recommend to put it too high, as you still might want to surf the net while uploading.

nmat's proposal is basically true. please also remember that upload speeds of most connections are 5 to 10 times slower than download speeds.

This might be an interesting idea:
Install a copy of Wuala to an external harddisk, put your files for uploading in the client and let it encrypt them, then start the client at work or anywhere else where you've got a good internet connection (my university for example allows ~15 GB traffic/month... and the upload speed there is rather unlimited :D)

On Bittorrent clients, the recommended upload capacity is 80% of your actual max upload rate. You can test your speed here: http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest - Make sure Wuala is closed and you're not downloading or uploading anything.

For example, if the speed results say your download speed is 1600 Kbps and upload speed 384 Kbps, you want Wuala settings (at a maximum) to be:

Download 160 KB/s (1600 divided by 8, multiplied by 0.8).
Upload 38 KB/s (384 divided by 8, multiplied by 0.8).

@ sunk818:

I don't understand your calculations - 80 % means just multiply by 0.8.
That what you wrote is 10 % (0.8 divided by 8 = 0.1).

So:
Download 1280 KB/s (1600 multiplied by 0.8).
Upload 307 KB/s (384 multiplied by 0.8).

Greetings!

division by eight was just the bit/byte recalculation.

these days nobody can be sure if people actually know all those confusing mathematical and physical units for transfer speeds, data sizes and all that.... people tend to confuse the abbreviations or have no clues what a bit or byte is exactly.

divide by eight or multiply by eight if appropriate (tm) :)

@ Nickname:

Oh, yes, now I see that my posting was stupid...
sunk818 was talking about kB/s; and I meant kbit/s, nevertheless writing "KB/s"...

sunk818 is right.

Speed test results are usually in kbit/s,
Wuala-bandwidth-settings are in kB/s.

divide testresult by 8 for getting kB/s,
multiplicate by 0.8 for getting 80 %.

That's what he wanted to say.

I would use kilobits, but Wuala's max upload rate form box wants you to enter a value in kilobytes. So, that's why my final value are what they are.