Re: AUGD: Slow .Mac Web Gallery in Europe
Re: AUGD: Slow .Mac Web Gallery in Europe
- Subject: Re: AUGD: Slow .Mac Web Gallery in Europe
- From: //aSaM// <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 22:54:28 +0100
Are there many other non-Americans out there on the list? I wonder
if you could help confirm something for me...
I love the Web Gallery idea, I bought the family pack, but have not
loaded a video onto it yet because of such unbearably slow
connection speeds it won't play videos or pics or anything smoothly
at all. It was only because of Web Gallery I bought .Mac and iLife
08 at all.
I set up a Web Gallery recently after I bought a copy of iLife 08 so
I could put some photos up there and stuff for family. Typical use
for which all the advertising leads you to think it has been
designed for.
Only problem is, the speed of download or upload is never as quick
as iDisk, or Apple's own videos of conference speeches or their TV
ads. Mostly it gets to 80 kbps, and once hit 110 kbps, but this is
consistently half or less of speeds on other parts of the Apple
site. I have a 4 Mb broadband connection nd usually average about
530 kbps for web traffic, according to Activity Monitor and a couple
of the broadband speed test websites. It appears a European wide
issue, and even Finns with 24 Mb connections experience the same
connection speed as me.
I know from speaking to US friends that this problem does not affect
them, and that it so much doesn't affect them they don't believe it
has anything to do with Apple, but Apple .Mac Web Gallery is the
only place I hit these speed restrictions. A few of my members are
beginning to ask questions too, they pointed me towards this
discussion
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1081404&start=0&tstart=0
which they tell me has been read over 10,000 times and which has had
over 400 posts - all since the beginning of September.
Apple seem to be washing their hands of the matter, only sending out
feedback forms and saying Apple is not capping the service. But
demonstrably, connection speeds are slow for us Europeans (and we
pay about 50% more for the service than do Americans) and it IS only
Web Gallery that is so affected. Other parts of the Apple site flow
freely with no problems.
Can you please confirm what conection speed you get, and what
Broadband ADSL conection you have?
Many thanks,
Nigel MacGeorge
Basel MUG
Switzerland
Hey there, representing Cambridge Mac Users here :) I don't use that
particular feature so haven't really noticed, and also have not heard
anything about this from other UK Mac users. You could email all UK
Mac User Groups and ask if anyone has experienced problems. Email
contacts from:
http://macusersuk.org/mugs/index.html
Best,
Asam....
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