Images take forever to upload to Smugmug

zoomer · February 16, 2015

So yesterday I uploaded 900 images into a gallery. 21 hours later 750 have loaded....still not all loaded.
This is normal. Any time I upload images from my computer to Smugmug....takes....forever....

Is this the same for all of you.....

Images are from 16mp and 24mp cameras, process and uploaded as jpegs.

is there anything I can do to make these full sized images load faster.

zoomer · February 16, 2015

nobody....here....loads.....images......evidently........

Richard · February 16, 2015

How big are the JPGs and how much upload bandwidth do you have?

zoomer · February 16, 2015

Normal full size jpegs from a 16mp raw. Dont know on band width. My question is doesnt that seem like a long time.....do every ones images load so slowly?

denisegoldberg · February 16, 2015

zoomer wrote: »

Normal full size jpegs from a 16mp raw. Dont know on band width. My question is doesnt that seem like a long time.....do every ones images load so slowly?

I haven't uploaded the number of photos you are uploading at once but I have uploaded several hundred. My uploads generally complete very quickly - but my Verizon contracted upload / download speed is 75 Mbps in each direction. I just ran their speed test (http://my.verizon.com/services/speedtest/) to verify and it showed 83.91 Mbps down and 91.73 Mbps up.

SmugMug has tests you can run to check your speed.

upload test - http://upload.smugmug.com/test/line-quality/
line quality test - http://smugmug.com/test/line-quality/

I found it very interesting to compare the results on the smug tests with my verizon tests. Using the smug tests I saw 10.51 Mbps download (as opposed to Verizon's 83.91 down) but the upload speed was close with the smug test showing 84.52 Mbps up (as opposed to Verizon's 91.73 up).

I would recommend running the smugmug tests and also finding out if your internet service provider has tests that you can run.

--- Denise

zoomer · February 16, 2015

Perfect....thanks Denise.

AperturePlus · February 17, 2015

It entirely depends on your bandwidth, as mentioned.

900 images at full res jpegs from this location, would take days!

I would 'kill' to have Denise's capacity! lol

Tom Foster · February 19, 2015

Quite often if you have a typical 'up to 20 Mbps' phone line connection which is pretty common (in the UK at least), you might be getting 18Mbps or so download but maybe only 1-2Mbps upload. Doesn't seem unreasonable for it to be taking that long to upload that many photos to me!

Images take forever to upload to Smugmug

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