Accepting jpegs on CD via mail

[bham]

Are you planning on accepting jpegs on CD via the mail at anytime in the future? I love your service and have been a member for a year and half but agonize over uploads that take forever.

Please tell me this will be a possibility in the future. I see many competitors that offer this. Most are more in the making prints, etc business but are also starting to add features of hosting.

Thanks

[Khaos]

They don't have broadband in your area?

[bham]

They don't have broadband in your area?
They do and I use it. Not sure why it takes 2 hours to upload 50 images. They are full size jpgs and I am using a cable modem. I have tried uploading via another computer via cable and it was somewhat faster but still slow.

Some wedding galleries I need to upload 1000 images. This takes forever and I would truely perfer to mail the CD's to smugmug.

[Khaos]

What do you mean by full size?

If I load up images downsized to 900x600 res, I'm looking at around 150kb to 200 kb size.

If I don't downsize, they will still only be anywhere from 500 to 600kb, and the upload would still only be around 15 minutes max for 50 images.

[jfriend]

They do and I use it. Not sure why it takes 2 hours to upload 50 images. They are full size jpgs and I am using a cable modem. I have tried uploading via another computer via cable and it was somewhat faster but still slow.

Some wedding galleries I need to upload 1000 images. This takes forever and I would truely perfer to mail the CD's to smugmug.
FYI, I use SE*Explorer (http://www.starexplorer.com/) to upload to smugmug and you can pre-configure everything you want to upload across many galleries and then walk away and let it go. I sometimes let it go overnight when I have hundreds to upload on my DSL connection. I've uploaded as many as 700 photos in it in one overnight session and I don't think there are any limits if you want to go higher than that. While it may still take awhile to do the upload, it will still happen faster than mailing a CD and you can do it today.

--John

[mercphoto]

They do and I use it. Not sure why it takes 2 hours to upload 50 images. They are full size jpgs and I am using a cable modem. I have tried uploading via another computer via cable and it was somewhat faster but still slow.

Some wedding galleries I need to upload 1000 images. This takes forever and I would truely perfer to mail the CD's to smugmug.

On my cable modem I can upload an 8.2 megapixel image of approximately 2.5 MB in about 1:10 per picture. Roughly 50-60 photos per hour, which is twice your rate. Your files are either twice the size of mine, or your uplink speed is half as fast. At my speeds, that 1000 images would take about 18 hours. Even at half that speed, its still much faster than the US Mail, no?

[Baldy]

In our experience, long uploads are nearly always from compression settings that make your images ten times larger than they need to be for any visible quality difference.

Here's more about that: http://www.smugmug.com/help/photo-storage

Let us know if I'm wrong.

All the best,
Baldy

[Richard S]

Your problem is almost certainly due to your cable provider having
limits on upload speed. You should call your cable company and ask
them what the cap is and if there is a way to pay more for a higher
cap. If you switch from cable to DSL you may find the cap is higher
or maybe even removed entirely.

Good luck.

[mercphoto]

If you switch from cable to DSL you may find the cap is higher or maybe even removed entirely.

Well, you can't remove the cap entirely. Any communication system will have a maximum bandwidth.

Where I live, cable modem is better than DSL. It all depends on where you live.

[bham]

I appreciate everybody's feedback, and long story short, for my current situation it would be easiest to mail in on CD even as slow as mail is.

[rainforest1155]

I appreciate everybody's feedback, and long story short, for my current situation it would be easiest to mail in on CD even as slow as mail is.Our fellow StarExplorer (http://www.starexplorer.com/) coder Nikolai offers such a service. Visit his homepage and click on services for more infos on his "mass upload"-service.

Hope that helps,
Sebastian

[Khaos]

That's like the difference between full service (ifany still exist) or self service gas stations.

You upload yourself, it's done.

You send in a CD and then someone has to load up the CD for you.

I know it sounds simple, but it still requires a person, who requires being paid money. It would cost smug mug more money to do the type of service you want.

The issue starts when if they offer it to you, then even more people want it and then they need to come up with a new pricing model when the one they have works well for the majority of members.

I think your asking for something that's not truly feasible.