youtube upload stop half way through problem PLEASE HELP

[eagles58]

Whenever i upload a video to youtube, it stops about halfway through or part way through and literally STOPS. the progress bar just wont move or change. it is very frustrating. i use a wireless connection, and even when i literally sit right next to the wireless box, the problem occurs, the videos have ranged from 5 mins to 10 mins. it has occured on both safari and firefox. help!

 

[r.j.s]

It might be your ISP interrupting the upload, but have you tried restarting the computer?

Do you have a different computer you can try?

 

[eagles58]

@r.j.s

the problem has been ongoing for about 3 days now, i have restarted, could it have something to do with disks being put to sleep? i am uploading the file from an external hard drive .

what could be wrong with the ISP?

 

[r.j.s]

@r.j.s

the problem has been ongoing for about 3 days now, i have restarted, could it have something to do with disks being put to sleep? i am uploading the file from an external hard drive .

It could be, but I don't really think so. You could try copying the file to the internal drive before uploading it.

what could be wrong with the ISP?

Some ISPs don't like large amounts of upstream traffic and will interrupt the connection. I don't know if that is the case, just a possibility.

 

[eagles58]

@r.j.s

i am copied to the internal and i am uploading now, any other ideas?

@r.j.s
the file is fairly large, (700 MB) 6 minutes ... something there?

 

[r.j.s]

@r.j.s

i am copied to the internal and i am uploading now, any other ideas?

Not at the moment, let us know how it goes.

@r.j.s
the file is fairly large, (700 MB) 6 minutes ... something there?

It might be too big for YouTube, check their requirements for size and file type.

 

[Aniday]

Not at the moment, let us know how it goes.



It might be too big for YouTube, check their requirements for size and file type.

File size limit is 2gigs. And up to 10 minutes*


*Unless you’re a youtube partner.

 

[r.j.s]

OP, going back to the ISP ...

Have you been able to upload videos of this size before? How many in the past month or so ... total size? 5GB? 10GB?

 

[eagles58]

@r.j.s

upload from my internal hard drive still stopped half way through.

 

[eagles58]

@r.j.s

i determined that it must be a problem with my ISP because i uploaded the video at school today on that network.

any ideas on how to handle the ISP problem?

 

[r.j.s]

any ideas on how to handle the ISP problem?

Use smaller files.

Really, unless you call them to find out why and how to work around it.