Uploading photos

Hmm...I can check into that! It is certainly friendly in all the regular ways!

Does it throw an error screen? It may be a "timeout" which I can change......

Before I turn this in for tech support:

What browser? Have you tried different browsers? Do you have more than one computer? Tried others?

Just trying to ID the problem as close as possible.

I'm wondering if this is a latency issue or a slow upload timeout? Hog, try uploading a really tiny image file, like say 2K in size and see if that works. I've read that upload speed to satellite can be really poor, like a tenth the download speed or worse. You might want to try a test at http://www.speedtest.net/ to see what you've got.

(FYI, other non-XF sites have seen this issue too.)

http://www.phpfox.com/forum/general-support-and-questions-75/photo-uploading-never-finishes/page_2/

There is a leak at the nuke blocking the sat signal.

You don't have enough tattoos...there's a minimum ink-covered surface area required for access approval.

I think that must be waved for pics of dogs, cats and sheds.

Yeah, must be.

But both times it actually uploaded???

Does the file seem to take a long time to upload, given it's small size?

I don't think this is the browser. That image may be too large for a test. Try something a tenth that file size.

Did you try the speed test? That will tell you your upload speed. If it's ridiculously low then that is likely the issue. FWIW, a friend of mine living up north in the boonies was going to sign up with WildBlue but his neighbors were having so many issues that he ended up going with Verizon's 3G. That seems to be working pretty reliably for them. They don't have WildBlue Excede service up there and they reported upload was 256k at best.

One thing you might have closely checked is the sat dish alignment. If not good you will notice it with slow uploads first.

Yeah, as you know that .08 MPS is too slow for just about anything!

The old forum did not use a flash uploader and some other newer conventions which this one does.....so it makes sense that it worked there.

Just for fun, have you tried turning off the rich text editor? It's worth a shot - you do that in your prefs.

Might be worth asking the XF folks if there is a buffer timeout limit on upload that can be extended. In the meantime hog, you can email me any picture you want posted. Include the thread url so that I get it to the right one.

I tried some hints from the XF people - try it now, with a smaller file first.
Let me know.

Bummer - try the other crazy stuff like resetting the satellite router - and any other router in-between.

Other than that, I am at an impasse - but will keep trying over at tech support.

Good thought. Unplug (not just switch off) the sat router for a minute and the local router too if you have an additional router connected. Also, if there is an in between router, maybe try connecting directly to the sat router to see if that fixes the issue?

Hogz - are your running Win7?
And Craig, can you either confirm or deny that the popup box, when it errors out is from the forum software. I only ask, because the pop looks like it could be from either windowz or the forum. Knowing where it comes from will be half the battle.

That is a forum error. The strange thing is that I set the timeouts to not get in the way.

But it's possible that the satellite "up" connections breaks all kinds of rules as to the handshaking.