Re: OT: uploading to Bandcamp.com

[Petri Lahtinen <aikuinen@gmail.com>]

so how BIG are your files exactly?
The one I uploaded just a while ago was 53 MB.

-Petri-

2010/4/8 Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Petri Lahtinen <aikuinen@gmail.com> 
>wrote:
>> I'm doing this from Finland, you're from Sweden so its something in
>> your connections/elsewhere there.
>
> Well, I'm no network engineer but most people say it simply happens
> because the world wide web was not designed to handle that big files
> (as FTP as, for a comparison). After all BAndcamp uses a flash plugin
> browser based upload method that can not be paused. So if the
> connection flickers just a little too much for the flash buffer the
> data transfer is broken and has to be initiated again from scratch.
> Just keep on doing that and at one point you will suddenly be lucky to
> get it all up! ;-)
>
> However, if you happen to have a too flickery internet connection it
> may not work. One trick could be to find the best time at day/night
> for uploading.
>
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se
> www.perboysen.com
>
>



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