Today is printfile upload day at AAM/Markosia. We have a total of four books going to print this month which total 352.3MB - actually, it's probably gonna be more like 450MB, but one interior file goes up later.
Anyway, our printer has this nice web interface where you select your files, put in the job ID, company, and reply to email, and then woosh, it goes up to their server.
Except there's no "woosh" involved whatsoever.
First off, the interface can't deal with Firefox. I have to switch to IE or get my uploads canceled after a mere 10MB. Fortunately, you can emulate IE with an extension in Firefox.
Next, while I have a maximum upload speed of 125kb/s, this server caps me at around 30kb/s. So I'm twiddling my thumbs for the longest time while this shit goes up, and have to listen to this weird "clicking" noise every time a chunk is successfully transferred.
So then it was a few hours later, and I checked the stupid window. 97.8% were done. And what happens? My internet cuts out during the remaining 2.2% and I have to start all over again!
I usually prefer to get everything up at once so nothing gets lost, but now I decided to split this upload into two sessions. Which will have me up half the night while I've got a rather high fever.
Good times!
Anyway, our printer has this nice web interface where you select your files, put in the job ID, company, and reply to email, and then woosh, it goes up to their server.
Except there's no "woosh" involved whatsoever.
First off, the interface can't deal with Firefox. I have to switch to IE or get my uploads canceled after a mere 10MB. Fortunately, you can emulate IE with an extension in Firefox.
Next, while I have a maximum upload speed of 125kb/s, this server caps me at around 30kb/s. So I'm twiddling my thumbs for the longest time while this shit goes up, and have to listen to this weird "clicking" noise every time a chunk is successfully transferred.
So then it was a few hours later, and I checked the stupid window. 97.8% were done. And what happens? My internet cuts out during the remaining 2.2% and I have to start all over again!
I usually prefer to get everything up at once so nothing gets lost, but now I decided to split this upload into two sessions. Which will have me up half the night while I've got a rather high fever.
Good times!
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