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Flickr-Trouble Uploading pics
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I have a Flickr account for the last two years but in the last four weeks I have found it extremely difficult to upload photos. The upload appears to freeze and eventually I have to cancel. I am a mobile broadband subscriber and have been on to both o2 and Flickr but nobody appears to be taking responsibility. Has anybody else been experiencing this problem?
Alan
I have a 3 meg broadband and ive found that with flicker its best to download the java plugin seperate (depending on browser) i use firefox
And only upload say 4 or 5 at a time. especialy if they are maximum quality.I have the same problem which surfaced about 2 months ago. I also have an O2 broadband connection. I think the problem is that the O2 signal drops out constantly for milli seconds which interrupt the upload and cause it to fail. You don’t notice it while surfing but it’s a nightmare for uploading stuff.
Whereabouts are you based? I’m in Clane, Co Kildare.
Well ive just accepted it as a Flicker upload problem and not with the connection,Eircom is my main broadband but also its the same with clearwire so id say its flicker’s problem.
Im based in Kells Co Meath and work in dublin and both areas with different providers have the flicker upload problem.The reason I think it’s an O2 issue is because I have the same problem, although not as regular, with Pix.ie
I also cannot use sites like yousendit.com or ALAMY as the uploads timeout every time when using O2. I use Vodafone with work and they all work fine most of the time.
so you use the usb dongle to wifi connect.
if so that could be the problem as that will have to use a bandwith thats regulated higher than a home instalation the same goes for vodaphone and meteor and clearwire. and this can be effected by your location too but its still best to upload a few at a time or you could regulate the file size in post processing like in photoshop (save for web and manualy tweek the file size) i think picassa has something similar too.
Problem is this can effect quality but save upload speed and web space.
so its up to the uploader.I upload them to flickr at approx 125KB. One at a time. It can’t even manage that 90% of the time :)
I think it may be my location thats causing this.
I use a 3G modem & when I’m using IE8, it can be really slow, while firefox seems to be much quicker when uploading.
Yeah there is lots of factors that can affect uploads 1=Browser 2=Broadband speed 3=flicker traffic 4=The ammount of ram you have.
unfortunatly there is no certified solution to the flicker upload speed.
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