For event and wedding photogs that post big galleries on line - what's your maximum upload speed you are getting, and what type of Internet connection do you have?
I have Earthlink ADSL in the Atlanta metro. My FTP upload speed averages 30-50kb per second, which means a Saturday of youth football takes a long, long time to upload to my web host. (I'm posting reduced size jpg's only).
Just curious what you are using, and what upload speeds you get. This is the last major time-suck left in my get-to-web-on-sale process now that I have a faster computer to download and sort, and downsize.
haijak wrote:
I have the FiOS 20/5 package, and I get a pretty solid upload rate of about 5Mbps (5120 kbps) just as advertised. I love FiOS.
5 Mbps is about 640 kilobytes/sec upload, which is considerably faster than the OP. I think the OP should consider switching to at least cable instead of DSL and he should see a lot faster upload rates.
They're still not always going to be very fast, though. I'm on Time Warner's Roadrunner in NYC and I'm getting about 6Mbps down/640Kbps up. Even FTPing updated image galleries to my website takes long enough that I'll go make a sandwich and come back while they're uploading. I know that isn't necessarily typical for other areas but it isn't atypical either.
FiOS, if you can get it, seems to be the most economical way to get massive amounts of bandwidth to the home.
Upload speed to my web server: 1000mb/s as I host my own in my office that is plugged into an fiber optic OC-1 line direct to my office. I'm only paying for a partial bandwidth of about 3MB/s up and down - but my speed tests show it closer to 4MB/s both ways. I can scale to 25MB/s if I need to with a phone call (and checkbook)
Yes, I know that the down is relatively slow, but the UP is what I'm paying for - and worth while as we cover youth sporting events and I have over 2.2Million images online currently (just in the past 18 months)
Upload speeds only help so much. I have far more upload bandwidth than my server will let me FTP to it. DSL in many cases has more stable and more consistant upload rates. Certainly in my area you can get DSL upload rates that match your DL. You can't get even close to that with a cable modem.
You may want to check into what your server is capable of.
Most DSL providers provide nice fast downloads, since that is what most customers want, but much slower uploads.
I currently have the fastest Qwest DSL available here in my area 7 Mb upload, but I am sitll limited to 1 Mb download. Have been patiently waiting for their fiber optic service, but might end up switching to cable.
If fast uploads is what you are looking for, DSL is not the way to go. Cable or even satellite will be faster in many cases, but since you share the cable bandwidth with other users, it might slow down when lots of people are using it. Cable will have very low pings and satellite will have very high pings. The ping rate is not that important for upload, but if you play vidoe games online you need that low ping.
In my neighborhood, there is no other choice than cable. Too far from the telco switch to make DSL work. It is offered, with no performance guarantee, by two providers. Neither work adequately at my house.
Yes, cable slows down when the traffic is high, but when traffic is light, like in the middle of the night, it rips.
I can't justify the cost of a higher-bandwidth connection, and am affected only when uploading photos to my server.
My Comcast connection tests at 18 Mb down, 10 Mb up. Realistically, uploads are more like 3 Mb, though I don't know if this is an issue with the connection or my host.
Around here the only options are cable and DSL. DSL is more consistent, however, even when cable drops off, it's still faster than the fastest DSL options. Right now it's kind of slow and testing at 6.6 down, 8.3 up.
business SDSL is symmetric and quite a bit more expensive. you will get consistent faster rates if you switch provided they allow you to switch. they may not allow business SDSL to a home or may not have. a different ISP in your area may do so.
Herb...
dpmurray wrote:
I have Earthlink ADSL in the Atlanta metro. My FTP upload speed averages 30-50kb per second, which means a Saturday of youth football takes a long, long time to upload to my web host. (I'm posting reduced size jpg's only).
Hi all
The trouble with typical "Broadband" is that it IS assymetric -- i.e different U/L and D/L speeds.
The ISP's are always rabitting on about how fast their download speeds are -- I can get up to 20 Mb/s but upload speeds are a fraction of that.
They always assume that people are interested in fast download (true) but forget a lot of us would like fast UPLOAD as well -- for example RDP / VPN connections, upload pictures / data to Studio / paper etc etc.
I'm afraid out in the field you won't find really fast public Upload speeds until the ISP's see a market for it and then it will cost an arm and a leg.
Cable might be an answer but that solution will only work from your own home / studio / workplace.
I'm afraid that in some cases Fedex / DHL etc is still a FASTER and Cheaper solution - Dinosaur Technology isn't quite dead yet.
I had Comcast for years and I noticed that uploading and downloading degraded significantly once additional people came home (neighbours coming home from work) and started surfing. I had such bad overall service I cancelled but not just for the internet. I went to Verizon DSL which was like going back into the late 80s. After having DSL for a painful year or so, I upgraded to FIOS. FIOS is a great leap forward and I now have to 20 mbps download/5 mbps upload. I have tested the speeds and they are constant. When I had Comcast I could download as fast or faster than FIOS sometimes during lunch time or in the late evenings/early morning hours, but they did not allocate dedicated speeds per customer as FIOS does. Hence the reason FIOS is better.
I have Comcast cable, pay for faster than average in my home in Portland Oregon
on my PC:
download 21.01 mb/s
upload 8.22 mb/s
on my laptop with comcast's home wifi network
download 19.33 mb/s
upload 8.30 mb/s
and on my laptop with comcast's 4G to Go
download 1.11 mb/s
upload .02 mb/s
I have the 4G comcast to go for my laptop around town and it sucks compared to my home set up
both my pc & laptop have 4GB of RAM and dual core processors running vista
I shoot dog sports almost every weekend, and upload well over 1000 proofs in galleries every Monday, so upload speed is important to me
as I host my own in my office that is plugged into an fiber optic OC-1 line direct to my office. I'm only paying for a partial bandwidth of about 3MB/s up and down - but my speed tests show it closer to 4MB/s both ways. I can scale to 25MB/s if I need to with a phone call (and checkbook)