Uploading Images too slow on Dialup

Mine have always loaded slowly and I have high speed DSL...I guess I just got used to it tho.
Yesterday it took 20 minutes to load 30 photos That's usually about normal for me...

i also have high speed broadband and it take forever to upload photographs. its a really big problem, glad you brought it up.

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Originally posted by momborch:
I am new to auctiva. I was just using ebay tools to create our listings until I discovered I could use auctiva for free. It is really neat with the templates and other features but when it comes to image loading it was faster on ebay even with dial up. I am still stuck with dial up.
Does anyone find that uploading their images using auctiva is way too slow when using dial up?

Is there anything I can do to improve this?
I really like Auctiva but the uploading time may end my interest if there isn't something I can do to improve it.
Thanks.
Momborch

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I have broadband satellite and they load quickly. Are you downsizing your file size of the image in your photo editor. If you don't it will take forever to upload! I downsize to 640/480 and this works beautifully. Jeanie

Thank you, Jeanie. I discovered the file size may be the issue from reading other posts on this forum. I also contacted support help but they have been slow to respond.
I was also trying to upload pics in the images tab and am still playing with that. Having some issues with java for some reason. It worked with the html option but only one picture at a time.
I haven't used it with the internet explorer option yet.
Anyway there is so much to learn and figure out here so I guess it will take time. It kind of stinks sometimes cuz of having slow dial up.
I wish I had the features of this site but with a desktop lister that would be faster for me even if I had to pay as long as it were a affordable. Any suggestions on that, anyone?

Thanks,
Momborch

www.autohobby4me.com

Typical high speed connections are only fast downloading and not uploading. I assume ISP's do that because they don't want you running servers from your home. Typically upload speeds are restricted to 128k where as average dsl download speeds are 10-20x that fast.

Couple the slow upload speeds of modems and some dsl/cable connections with todays digital cameras that take high quality photos that require a couple megabytes each and you have a problem.

There are a few things you can do:

1.) turn your digital camera to 1600x1200 or "low quality" setting. We resize them all down anyways to 1024x768 so you don't need all the extra pixels digital cameras have today. My new camera takes pictures at 4000x3000. That's great if you want to print an 8x11" photo but it's more than overkill for a photo going into eBay and when peoples monitors are typically set to 1024x768 wide. A 4000x3000 photo would be 4x wider than most peoples screens. It's also about 30x bigger in file size which means 30x longer of a upload.

2.) So the easiest way is #1 just to turn down your cameras resolution and quality setting to low. If you cant do that or find the results lacking in some way then take them how you normally do then use a photo editing program to resize the images to 1024x768 before you upload them to us. There are free editors such as irfanview.com, Picasa, etc.

Either of the above should cut your upload times by 10-20x. So from 30 minutes down to 2-3 minutes in the one example above.

If you look at the file sizes of the images on your computer before you upload them to us they should be 200k bytes or less. My new digital camera usually starts with them around 2-3 megabytes which is 10-15x that big.

Hey, Jeff!
Thank you so much! I never even thought of checking the camera itself. That will save me so much time from manually resizing pics on my kodak software.

Momborch

www.autohobby4me.com

I am finding today listing that the images are really slow to download. I just got a new computer and have loved the speed at which the pictures loaded compared to my old computer, but now it is crawling again.