Need tech help: Slow upload

[rmemedic]

Well. As my laptop gets older, it gets slower.
I've done a defragment, cleared out the start up list for crap I don't use, and did a disk clean up... No help.

My biggest issue right now, is I have a download speed of about 6MBPS, but my upload is .67mbps...
I've been trying to upload my gopro footage to youtube, it took me over a day and it still hadn't completely finished.
I turned off my modem for a bit and plugged it back in too, to see if it would help.
It's been like this for a few days as far as I can tell.

Any tips?
Seems like the computer is always "warm" and thinking when I have nothing running up front. I took it apart to see if it was dirty inside but it was spotless so I can't explain the heat build up and am assuming it's just the computer working.

It can hardly handle simple gopro clips in movie maker now, last year I was able to edit some good little videos, but no way is that happening now.

[fastar1]

The upload speed should be strictly a matter of throttling by your ISP. You are paying for .67mbps up, so that's what they give you.

The only way I know to restore the youthfulness of a PC is to restore a disk image from an earlier date. Well, either that or reinstall the OS from scratch.

[Red_Liner740]

go to www.speedtest.net and test your connection, it will also give you a comparison of speeds other people are getting with your ISP.

0.67 Mbps is about 80kb/s, which is the average upload speed ISPs throttle people to.

[N3WMAN]

How much of your hard drive are you using? How big is it?

Windows XP, Vista, 7?

All laptops get hot. It happens when you have the power of a desktop in the size of a book. No room for cooling.

[FiReSTaRT]

It really depends on how big the footage is, might depend on the server you're uploading to and if your computer (and/or another computer/other computers on your network) is/are infected with malware, it/they might already be uploading a bunch of junk, slowing down your legitimate upload as the pipe is only so wide (.67Mbps).

[RockerGuy]

run a scandisk (a complete one)
Clear up any programs you're not using
Uninstall anything beside the clock you're not using

[Xhumeka]

Pretty sure it's a limitation of your internet plan - who are you with and what plan? Like posted above, 80k/sec is standard for crappy internet plans.

Only way to increase that is to switch plans...

If you're with Rogers, here are the uploads speeds for each plan: http://www.rogers.com/web/Rogers.por...=INTER_HISPEED

As you can see, 2MBs is the fastest which equals approx 250k/sec

If you are with Teksavvy or some other DSL provider, you can obtain much higher upload speeds:

http://teksavvy.com/en/res-internet.asp

Up to 7MBs (875k/sec) is possible - the time to upload your video clips would be less than 1/10th of what it is currently.

[rmemedic]

Maybe the file is just huge then, as I picked the best possible quality. I'll go in and change that up.
Never had this issue before, I've been with Bell (only service I can get here) for a few years.

[RicoChet]

The raw video from your camera is most likely gigantic multiple gigabyte files.
Use a seperate video encoder to compress the video down to a fraction of the size.

For example, you can convert a 4 gig file down to 700 megabyte and still keep good video quality after converting to a H264 format.. Youtube will always degrade your high definition footage anyway so its not a real big loss.

[RockerGuy]

Your ISP doesn't want to see your vids

[REDBALLS]

Wireless or wired internet setup?

[rmemedic]

wireless, I'm the only one on my network.

[GayManLoveIsOK]

how big is the file that you are trying to upload?

[rmemedic]

I tried a smaller format, so far it's going a lot faster... Thanks guys, simple solution!