posted on November 11, 2000 07:51:20 PM
Is anyone else been having trouble uploading photos for DAYS? (Started on Tuesday I think.) I can't upload at auctionwatch, honesty, goto, or even to my website. I can occasionlly get one photo to upload, but I've been trying since tuesday and have gotten a whole 7 or 8 photos posted. I know auctionwatch has been having problems, but I don't think the other sites have. Do I need a new computer? If so I need to buy it tommorrow. I've cleaned out my temp internet files lately, but I know I've been having some computer problems, esp. with illegal operations when nothing is running. What gets me is I can't even upload to my website.
posted on November 11, 2000 08:09:05 PM
jendiggy1, go to the "old image hosting site" and use it.
I use this, don't like the new one, and have never had a problem, even when every one else is having problems. I also think the pictures are better. The same pic. are on both sites. Check it out. Also like the "old" counter system and auction listing. I'll probably leave AW if they ever do away with the "old" sites.
posted on November 11, 2000 08:10:01 PM
jendiggy1, go to the "old image hosting site" and use it. http://www.auctionwatch.com/my/ihost/
I use this, don't like the new one, and have never had a problem, even when every one else is having problems. I also think the pictures are better. The same pic. are on both sites. Check it out. Also like the "old" counter system and auction listing. I'll probably leave AW if they ever do away with the "old" sites.
posted on November 11, 2000 08:15:38 PM
My guess is you dont need a new computer this could be trouble with your ISP maybe haveing trouble to many callers so your not getting on there higher speed modem
connections but getting om the slower 28.8 connection trouble between you and the provider in the phone lines them selves.
another thing that will tend to cause the errors and slowness in your browser is your cookies folder hasnt been emptied in a long time they slow things down big time after you have a few 100 thousand also delete your history.
your computer it self will slow down if you have done a disk scan and defrag on it in a while.
if your browser is still IE 4.0 its time to upgrade the web has changed alot since 97 when that came out time to up grade to the IE 5.5
in any case slow up loads or not being able to upload is not connected to your needing a new computer more then likely your ISP if your ISP has another local number you can try in another town close by even if its long distants try that number see if there is a difference in your connections and speed on the web and down loading just to see.
many ISPs have several local numbers users can use in times of trouble and each will usually work differently.
posted on November 11, 2000 08:19:06 PM
Jendiggy1,
I agree 100%. I never upload images through Auction Manager. I always use the "old" site. The geniuses with EE degrees havn't made any "improvements or upgrades" to it and it works great. Sounds to me like you may have a connectivity problem, either through your ISP or with your phone line.
The light at the end of the tunnel will turn out to be an oncoming train.
posted on November 11, 2000 08:21:42 PM
Thanks. I live in a rural area, and only 3 ISPs, and only one of them runs at 50K, the others cost much more a month and run at 28K. Glad to know I don't need a new computer.
I'll try going to the old site, but since I can't upload at goto, honesty, or my website either, I wonder what is going on!
posted on November 11, 2000 08:23:40 PM
Yeah, but if they ever deceide to get rid of that (looking for you old services) link we're gonna be dead in the water!
posted on November 11, 2000 08:28:56 PM
It won't work through the old link either. I've been trying all hours of the day and night. As early as 9 am and as late (early?) as 4 am, and nothing happens. I just get a page saying the page cannot be shown.
posted on November 11, 2000 08:33:32 PM
I no were your coming from, I would bet its your ISP connection it's to slow which is usally caused by bad phone line or should I say outdated line, but 1st try this and it's Free to do usally only takes 10 min to do, call your local phone provider not your ISP provider tell them you want them to do a line check and make sure there's no static and or moisture in your line it usally takes them at the most 10 min while your on the phone with them, they do it from right there.
I went threw all this thought it was my provider well it realy depends were your at and what kind phone line you have, I finally got DSL and it is AWESOME. What use take me 5 min to upload I can do usally in less than 1min if not just seconds and twice the amount of pictures.
I no the aggrevation you are dealing with been there done that got the T-shirt's.
posted on November 11, 2000 10:25:17 PM
Had the same problem about 6 months ago. Spent lots of time on phone with compuserve
tech rep and sought help from every computer
guru I could find -- to no avail. When I tried to load the pic the "Transfering Document" thingee at the bottom corner would
get to 39% and click off -- Most of the time a "Page Cannot be Displayed" would come up and other times the hour glass would just disappear and the arrow would stay but nothing else would happen. Transferring of document would just stop. I talked to phone company ad nauseum. Finally after two weeks of this, I called a computer consultant (pricey), but I was losing money not listing.
He worked for two hours trying everything he could think of. Finally (he said as a last-ditch try)-- he installed FlashNet (from
Prodigy). He signed on to FlashNet and then went to compuserve through that connection and it WORKED!!! He did it over and over again. It's still working great 6 months later. When I wrote him the check, I asked him why it works -- His reply was "I haven't
got a clue". But I was grateful.
posted on November 12, 2000 02:01:06 AM
jenndiggy1,
You mentioned illegal ops, when nothing is running. Sounds like you have a marginal memory chip in the computer or probably a bad socket on the mainboard. If you know how to get into your CMOS settings and change the memory access to a slower setting, might solve your problem, there's really no noticable degradation in performance.
What size are your images? If they're too big, your probably constantly hitting the bad areas in memory.
Scandisk and defrag sometimes help also, win95/98 likes a lot of free space.
Try reloading your operating system. Could also be corrupt files.
