What's THE fastest way to upload Smugmug?

Markjay · January 13, 2008

Ok, I've been using the "send to smugmug" hack and it works well.
Just wondering if that's the most practical way to upload (speed wise) lots of photos at once... maybe there are tools I'm not yet aware of?

One lesson I learned... using irfanview to tag the photos one really needs to use the "" marks before and after each and every word you tag and then upload because Smugmug didn't like the words without the quotation marks.

Thank you,
Markjay

denisegoldberg · January 13, 2008

I can't speak about speed, but if you're uploading large numbers of photos you might want to consider Star*Explorer. Thread and link to product is at http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=4126.

--- Denise

claudermilk · January 14, 2008

I doubt which tool you use will make any significant impact. The connection speed you have will be most critical, and the throughput speed to SM's servers. That said I tend to use Komodo Drop as it stay's out of the way & I can continue to work with my other apps while the upload is in progress--not an actual acceleration, but a perceived one since I'm not stuck twiddling my thumbs while it's going.

z_28 · January 14, 2008

I'm not sure that any software may help you, sorry.
Upload speed for standard cable/DSL connections are about 256 kbps [30 KB/s] only !!!

Check your upload connection speed at, for example :
http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest

but there is a lot of internet speed tests around.

jerryr · January 15, 2008

Hi - I tried the speed test as well - nice utility.
I use the 'Send to Smugmug' Application on my laptop (Windows Vista) and
it works like a charm

- jerryr

Andy · January 15, 2008

z_28 wrote:

but there is a lot of internet speed tests around.

we have our own

Click my latest test below:

Julia · January 15, 2008

Hey, thanks for posting that Andy.

Things seem awfully slow for me lately... and good lord, look at these results relative to yours! At least I know it's not in my head! Hmmm... must work on this.

DJ-S1 · January 15, 2008

I've always used the Firefox addon SmugBrowser coupled with the FasterFox utility. It uploads 6 streams at a time this way and it goes pretty quickly, but I have a pretty fast cable connection to the net.

z_28 · January 15, 2008

Andy - 1783 kbps upload looks somewhat amazing - what's you got ? T3 ???

HoyBoy · January 16, 2008

I guess I have no room to complain.

DrDavid · January 18, 2008

What slow connections!

I keep thinking of upgrading to an even faster connection, but, so far it's been OK.

jfriend · January 18, 2008

DrDavid wrote:

What slow connections!

I keep thinking of upgrading to an even faster connection, but, so far it's been OK.

How do you all get such fast upload speeds? The fastest upload speed I can find here (SF Bay Area) from either AT&T DSL or Comcast Cable is 768kbps. What technology and provider is offering that faster upload speed?

mbellot · January 18, 2008

Sorry to drag this back on topic...

I've been very happy with KomodoDrop. Its about as simple an application you can get to use, and its totally hands off once you queue up the files. I recently sent over 900 files, queued them up before I went to bed and it was done in the morning.

Markjay wrote:

Ok, I've been using the "send to smugmug" hack and it works well.
Just wondering if that's the most practical way to upload (speed wise) lots of photos at once... maybe there are tools I'm not yet aware of?

One lesson I learned... using irfanview to tag the photos one really needs to use the "" marks before and after each and every word you tag and then upload because Smugmug didn't like the words without the quotation marks.

Thank you,
Markjay

Markjay · January 18, 2008

Thank you!
You don't have to apologize for bring up this topic again, you were actually helpful! I've now tried three different smugmug uploading applications and..
I like this one the best so far.

Problem: It's not reading my keywords and caption on the photos.......
so it leaves me more work to do. That's not my style. One of the other apps did in fact retain my file information / captions and keywords.

Any idea how to tell kimono drop how to KEEP the keywords I spent the time to create inside the files?

mbellot wrote:

Sorry to drag this back on topic...

I've been very happy with KomodoDrop. Its about as simple an application you can get to use, and its totally hands off once you queue up the files. I recently sent over 900 files, queued them up before I went to bed and it was done in the morning.

Andy · January 18, 2008

Hi Mark, the simple uploader works fastest and best for me, and I upload hundreds, if not thousands of files at a time.

Andy · January 18, 2008

jfriend wrote:

How do you all get such fast upload speeds? The fastest upload speed I can find here (SF Bay Area) from either AT&T DSL or Comcast Cable is 768kbps. What technology and provider is offering that faster upload speed?

That's the frustrating thing.. it's different everywhere. Here's Cablevision, 2500 miles from San Jose:

DrDavid · January 18, 2008

jfriend wrote:

How do you all get such fast upload speeds? The fastest upload speed I can find here (SF Bay Area) from either AT&T DSL or Comcast Cable is 768kbps. What technology and provider is offering that faster upload speed?

It's FIOS from Verizon. FIOS is fiber optics. Technically, they COULD offer up to 100mb/s each way! (That's 100,000kb/s up and down.) But, I can't get it yet (no one can). In New Jersey, you can get 20,000kb/s bi-directional right now! And, *I* could get up to 30,000kb/s down and 15,000kb/s upload NOW in CA, but, it's like $350/mo or so... The NJ offering is the same price as my 15/2--but they get 20/20.. argh.

I can use full bandwidth 24/7 given my network.. It's all optimized for the fast fios speeds; low latency, large packet sizes, decreased error detection, etc.. Bumps up your speed a bit over what you'd normally see. Great for multi-threaded downloads or uploads

The cool thing is that on a fast connection, I can download an entire CD in about 5 minutes.

FIOS is unfortunately only available from Verizon, and only in select areas. You just need to be lucky...

David

Markjay · January 18, 2008

Strips the keywords
Andy, I've tried the simple uploader. It is fast enough but, it's stripping or at least not showing the keywords and captions I created in my photo files.
In other words: I create keywords and captions IN each file, but when I upload them through simple uploader....

none of the information shows up under the photos in the galleries.
That would force me to re-keyword and caption... I don't think so.

So please tell me, what can I do to ensure those keywords and captions STAY and show up in the gallery under the photos... using simple uploaader?

Thanks

Andy wrote:

Hi Mark, the simple uploader works fastest and best for me, and I upload hundreds, if not thousands of files at a time.

Nikolai · February 10, 2008

I like my FIOS

LA:

Smugmug:

DrDavid · February 10, 2008

Nikolai wrote:

I like my FIOS

I might upgrade to the 15/15 too... But, I have static IP's (5 total), so, I'm already paying extra money..... We'll see how much more they want. :devbobo

Nikolai · February 10, 2008

denisegoldberg wrote:

I can't speak about speed, but if you're uploading large numbers of photos you might want to consider Star*Explorer. Thread and link to product is at http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=4126.

--- Denise

Thanks for the plug, Denise, much appreciated!

And I'm happy to confirm that S*E is now back in the game after the "Black Friday" (smugmug security rollout with the album/image keys)

Nikolai · February 10, 2008

DrDavid wrote:

I might upgrade to the 15/15 too... But, I have static IP's (5 total), so, I'm already paying extra money..... We'll see how much more they want.

I use DHCP thus far, but I was honestly surprized by how little extra they charged for the 15/15 compared to 15/5 I had before.

DrDavid · February 10, 2008

Nikolai wrote:

I use DHCP thus far, but I was honestly surprized by how little extra they charged for the 15/15 compared to 15/5 I had before.

I'm paying $120 (less a $20/mo credit) for my 15/2 static with 5 IP's. I think the 15/15 is $40 more. I'm awaiting an answer, and... I'm debating if $480/yr extra is worth the money.

David

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