Tech question

[magid]

So, thanks to Papasmurf, I finally got the photos off my camera (yeah, the one I bought in May... I'm lame). Which is great: I can now start sending them to the people I promised photos to (a mere six months late). Except that when I try to send them via Gmail, it takes so much time (one with 4 photos attached hasn't yet sent, after 50 minutes, because it's "still working..."; the first attempt, with one photo, took close to a quarter of an hour) that something seems to be wrong. I have no clue as to what that might be, or whether I'm being unrealistic about the limits of Gmail (the files are 2-3 MB). Any ideas what I should do?

Comments

[trainingmom.livejournal.com]

Make them smaller size when you mail them. Or you can post them to picassa (a google thing) and make them private by invite only or public depending on the pictures.
Nechama

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

I just figured out how to make them smaller; hopefully it will go through this time, though it's far from quick still. Is there any convention about usable sizes/resolutions?

(A couple of photos I'm not allowed to post, just email. I'd rather not deal with yet another site to post photos to, given that I'm likely to post a bunch here and/or on Facebook already.)

[queue.livejournal.com]

You could check your connection speed somewhere like:

http://www.speedtest.net/

For example, I got about 5050 kbps download and 267 kbps upload (kpbs = kilobits per second).

So, you can then calculate how long it should take you to upload stuff. (Divide by 8 to change kilobits to kilobytes, then divide by 1024 to change kilobytes to megabytes, then you can multiply by 60 to get megabytes per minute. So, for my example, it's about 2 MB in one minute, so 4 files of 2-3 MB each should take on the order of 5 minutes.)

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link.

That gives me 736 kb/s download and 132 kb/s upload, or 0.966796872 MB/min, so those 4 files totaling about 10 MB should have taken around 10 minutes. So something wasn't right, that Gmail was "working...." for three quarters of an hour until I just canceled it to play around with photo (file) size.

[powerfrau.livejournal.com]

Diskette, and US postal service...

[magid.livejournal.com]

CD and postal service, I suppose. Except that I don't have snail mail for the overseas people...

(I've managed to send a couple of photos/email, and I suppose that's sufficient for now...)