I feel your frustration, Boris. The sad truth is if you want internet speed you have to pay for it. My old Earthlink account had a download speed of 5 MBPs, and I can only imagine what the upload speed was. In switching to Comcast Xfinity, I now get download speeds of nearly 58 MBPs ( just did a test: 57.62) and upload speeds of nearly 12 MBPs (test 11.70).
These speeds have changed dramatically my computer/internet experience. In the last month, I have uploaded blurb books made via Lightroom—big ones—13x11 inches with 100+ pages—and the upload time was super fast, under 20-25 minutes. I even made a little 7 x 7 blurb book via Lightroom on my laptop and uploaded it via wireless, and that took 15 minutes, though the book length was 48 pages, and I was in the same room as my router at the time of upload. No doubt at some point I may run in to a Lightroom/Blurb server glitch, but so far so good. Cheers, Christine On Aug 9, 2014, at 12:54 PM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, Godfrey, I don't intend to spend serious money every month to have > faster up-stream connection from home. Granted, this one was a rather big > book (almost 400MB of PDF file, 140 pages, and stuff), but I am not at all > happy about my experience. > > I expect the books to be printed with excellent quality as usual, but it > needn't be hours upon hours spent like this... > > Boris > > > On 8/8/2014 11:45 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> Good to hear it! >> I have similar problem with my work: Uploading is very slow when I'm working >> from home and the server sometimes gives up before all the data is done >> transferring. In the office with the exact same laptop, the upload runs >> about 30x faster and without errors. >> >> Godfrey >> >> >>> On Aug 8, 2014, at 10:25 AM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> A brief follow up. After several attempts (each takes 2-3 hours, as my >>> network connection is very asymmetrical - upstream is way slower than >>> downstream) it finally worked. >>> >>> I had to disable the anti-virus and actually be active on the computer >>> throughout most of the process... >>> >>> Got 25% discount due to the fact that this was my very first book uploaded >>> from LR 5.x. >>> >>> Boris >>> >>> >>>> On 8/1/2014 9:33 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: >>>> Guys, >>>> >>>> I am in deep shit... We've prepared some 100+ book from our trip to >>>> Europe last year. I am trying to upload it from LR (first 5.5, now 5.6) >>>> to Blurb. It renders the PDF, it then goes on to "upload the pages". At >>>> around 80% it produces an error message without giving my reason as to >>>> why it failed to upload the book. >>>> >>>> Any help or hints will be greatly appreciated. >>>> >>>> Boris >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
