Bird Watching: Titmouse Pix # 2, 1 by 2dCousinDave

2dCousinDave wrote:
From the previous thread:

quote="Methodical"]Dave, what size are your files? In the past, I had issues uploading my files and it turned out the files were too large (spoke to admin), so I now keep them at 3mb or lower, now. When the file size was 7mb, it would reject the upload, but would take 6mb, but very slowly and if it took to long it would time out. At 5mb or lower, no problem, but as I stated I tend to keep them under 3mb and zip they upload without a hitch. I'd say check your file size to see if they are too large.[/quote]

Al, I shoot in large JPEG and usually crop about 100%, so most of my images are trimmed to about 2 MB. I talked to admin too and came away with the impression that with images of that size it really didn't matter, except that a smaller image should upload faster. They told me any image larger than about 800x600 was automatically resized to that size by DG. I have since tried uploading resized images exclusively, but get the same result as when I uploaded full size images.

I know I've said this before but this time I think I may have finally gotten my problem fixed. Yesterday morning my cable modem was down for several hours, so again I called tech support at the ISP (Cox Communications). The person I spoke to told me my modem had reset 267 times yesterday. She was sure the modem was bad and that I needed to get a new one. I asked for a tech to come to the house and Cox sent one over this afternoon (yes, Sunday). Of course, when he showed up, everything was working fine. I explained the problem and asked what would make the modem reset so many times. I didn't understand and don't remember all of the techical reasons he told me, but he set out, checking the cables, down the street and outside the house. When he finished outside he told me the lines coming to the house were wet and then he checked and replaced all the connection fittings and splitters inside the house. So far things are running famously. When I move from one Internet site to another, it's zip, zip zip. So nice to deal with someone who seemed to know what he was talking about. When I get the time I will upload a bunch of images and see if the problem I have had with DG has been fixed.