tic tic tic, slow uploads, tips/tricks?

j-bo

I'm having slow upload times. Although, maybe I just have a boatload of photo's and it just takes this long.

I'll do a line quality test once these ever finish uploading.

I've been uploading about 1.0 or so gigs? I'm not really sure though. (roughly 300 photo's ranging from 2.4 to 5.5MB each) I have had 4 seperate folders uploading through the "send to smugmug" uploader. I have tried the drag and drop before, but get the java error thingie after awhile.

I'm on the 16th hour. 2 folders have finally finished and 2 are still going. One is 85 of 130 and the other is 86 of 114.

I uploaded more than this a week or two ago and it also took a long time, but not this long! I think that took all of 6hrs+.

Does anyone have any tips or tricks to uploading a lot, 2gb's or so? I would assume some event people take a lot more than me and upload a bunch more.

HELP please!

Andy

j-bo wrote:

I'm having slow upload times. Although, maybe I just have a boatload of photo's and it just takes this long.

I'll do a line quality test once these ever finish uploading.

I've been uploading about 1.0 or so gigs? I'm not really sure though. (roughly 300 photo's ranging from 2.4 to 5.5MB each) I have had 4 seperate folders uploading through the "send to smugmug" uploader. I have tried the drag and drop before, but get the java error thingie after awhile.

I'm on the 16th hour. 2 folders have finally finished and 2 are still going. One is 85 of 130 and the other is 86 of 114.

I uploaded more than this a week or two ago and it also took a long time, but not this long! I think that took all of 6hrs+.

Does anyone have any tips or tricks to uploading a lot, 2gb's or so? I would assume some event people take a lot more than me and upload a bunch more.

HELP please!

Hi J-bo

Yeah. First, do that line quality: www.dslreports.com
Second, you're uploading A LOT. That's cool For that many photos, and "set it and forget it" you might consider trying www.starexplorer.com it's a great tool for that sort of heavy lifting.

SamirD

I just found this thread. I regularly upload around 2gb+ a week.

To do this within the 6-8hrs in which I sleep, I had to increase my upload bandwidth. I did that by getting 3 cable modems capable of 512k upload and bound them together using a Linksys rv016 multi-wan router. The router can handle 7 different wan connections of different speeds and automatically load balances them.

As a side benefit, downloading anything with multiple objects (like the "all thumbs" style) takes no time at all since I get the benefit of 8mb x 3 = 24mb download speeds.

So now that you have the bandwidth, you need some software to take advantage of it. To be able to take advantage of the bandwidth, you need 3 or more independent streams to upload simultaneously.

I used to use StarExplorer and 3 different systems for this, but it became a real pain to work on 3 systems each time. Plus, it started taking forever (sometimes up to 30 minutes) for StarExplorer to be ready to send due the large number of albums I have.

So I changed over to Send to Smugmug, which worked great until yesterday. Send to DM allowed me to set up multiple uploads on one computer quickly and easily.

Using this system, I can upload about 632MB/hr or about 3.7GB in 6 hours. I haven't had a problem so far waking up before the upload finishes.

I hope this helps and feel free to ask any questions.