Time for another POLL!!!! yipee!!!

Unknown

Okay, before you all get stressed out, please, this one is a curious question from me trying to figure out something for when and how I post pictures. Your participation is appreciated. I also think that it might provide some interest to the board powers that be.



Best!

Hudsonkid

rambos_ride

Ouch - dialup is still ahead!

HudsonKid,

Some of those pictures you've been taking are very nice - professional quality - and I love the fact you share them with us on the forum. Some of us don't get out much so we live vicariously through your Hudson travels!

However - I'd suggest you setup a website to collect and display your photos on a permanent basis. Some of the nicer ones you might want to offer up as poster size prints...maybe make a couple of bucks...of course I suppose you would want the car owners permission for something like that.

More people would see your pictures, not just forum members. This could also help promote Hudsons in a way others might not have thought about.

As far as posting on the forum - if you could keep them small, 800x600 and then have a nice site for others with high speed connections or that want to see the larger hi-res pictures I think that would be the coolest of all.

If the pictures are too big in the forum posts any accompanying text and posts get all streched out and make you have to scroll the page to not only see the picture but read any of the content.

Anyway - poll or no poll - there's my .02

(btw I'm part Pole and take no offense to your polls )

Unknown

The pictures are always available to those who ask.



As far as setting up a website, not sure how good I would be at that. I have a hard time keeping up with mine as it is, it always needs updated, etc...



If someone wants a poster print of their car, I will be glad to provide a reasonable file for them to seek out the service to produce such a print.



If someone wants to use these for other purposes, as usual one just needs to ask.



I have given out a picture here, and there for those interested, and several people have been quite happy with the results.



Matter of fact, if people want a CD or a DVD of the photos I shot, I would even go as far as to send them out.



And finally, if someone likes how I capture cars, when I take pictures of them, I will be glad to shoot you car in a setting of your choosing, or whatever you find. All we got to do is solve the logistics of getting together, and from there, we are but a few clicks away. I can't travel to say, California, unfortunately, but if you are east coast, around PA, and can get the car close to me, I will do my best to figure something out.



I'm not looking to make any money on the endeavor either, so If this interests anyone out there, drop me a PM, or an e-mail. But perhaps lunch would be a nice jesture to little hudsonkid, preferrably something all you can eat...



From what the guys were charging at goodguys, etc... to do something similar, I don't think you will find a better deal.

SamJ

This is a great poll and I am very interested in the results. Club Members often have trouble sending and receiving large files. We've used high speed DSL for many years, and I continually forget that some of us have dial up, which now days is considered limited access. Probably a few folks are using Wi-Fi, too. I'd be interested to hear about people's experiences with cable access...I keep hearing it's flawed and unreliable. Maybe that depends on the area/provider. :cool:

faustmb

I am on FIOS for about a year now, zero complaints. Much more stable than the Roadrunner service I had.



Matt

rambos_ride

Am currently on cable, provided by my Cable TV provider - but not for long!...

My cable provider has given up on Maryland, and is moving out - They will transfer (sell?) their current customers to Comcast...:mad:

However, Verizon FIOS has recently been installed in my area, so I am moving to that... Supposed to be installed by the end of the week.
I had Verizon DSL before, but it wasn't stable enough, and I was so far from the main office all I could get was the minimum service speed - at most! Was still better than dail-up, but not by much.

I am on 'monthly' billing, so there will be NO notice to my current provider until the FIOS is up and running - :rolleyes:


Oh yea - Rick, FIOS isn't on the list (?)...

Anyone with Verizon should test and double check the connection speeds - Long story short - deceptive sales, outright lying, and overcharging are what I experienced in being with Verizon for over 5 years.

I've had nothing but bad dealings with Verizons Internet Services. As long as I live (and Verizon is in business) they will never get another dime from me.

I cannot think of another business that I have dealt with in my entire life that I feel this way about - if I move to an area that only Verizon covers I'll go without phone,tv, internet if they are they only providers. :mad:

Unknown

Am currently on cable, provided by my Cable TV provider - but not for long!...

My cable provider has given up on Maryland, and is moving out - They will transfer (sell?) their current customers to Comcast...:mad:

However, Verizon FIOS has recently been installed in my area, so I am moving to that... Supposed to be installed by the end of the week.
I had Verizon DSL before, but it wasn't stable enough, and I was so far from the main office all I could get was the minimum service speed - at most! Was still better than dail-up, but not by much.

I am on 'monthly' billing, so there will be NO notice to my current provider until the FIOS is up and running - :rolleyes:


Oh yea - Rick, FIOS isn't on the list (?)...

Currently on Comcast cable since they bought out Adelphia. No real complaits other than cost. After buying Adelphia they did not lower the rates, but Comcast around Pittsburgh is about half.

DSL is not available in our area yet.

[Deleted User]

I have charter cable modem and am well pleased with it.
Bob

Unknown

I cannot believe what a percentage there is with either cable or dial-up. It seems that is quite a divide to bridge.



Not to bump off topic, but if DSL is available in your area dial-up people, look into it. Often, it is about the same price as you pay for dial-up service. The extra speed will be worht it in your mind by the amount of time you save being on the internet.



Moving forward, if anyone is on FIOS, pair it up with the speed of the service that best represents what speed you realize.

[Deleted User]

My Cox Cable is faster than most of what I see out there, maybe not a T-1, but thats more cost than I want. Its $45 a month, but what else you going to do? What is this FIOS stuff, never heard of it.

[Deleted User]

Jay - Follow the link in my thread - It is fiber optic cable (laser/light). I'm sort of surprised it isn't yet available in your area...

Rick, that is what we have here, just didn't recognize the name. Its blazing speed as far as I can tell.

Jay

SuperDave

I don't really know what you would call my setup. Wireless Network? We live back in the woods 400 feet from the main road in a rural area and the local cable (Bright House) wants an arm and a leg for a special amplifier to service me, so we use dish network and the Sprint wireless for the computer.I have a small UHF antenna on the roof aimed at a tower about 2 miles away. A Modem between the computer and the antenna. Very fast, very reliable considering all the hurricanes we have been through. Not one interuption. I pay Sprint for the hookup and have earthlink for my email. Yes I have a firewall !.. Brighthouse has a fairly reliable "roadrunner" service, but not for us. I have hopes that At&T will soon have new fiber optic lines out here soon.

[Deleted User]

My wife has the cellular broadband for her laptop. It works pretty good, but not nearly as quick as the T1 I have here for my store.

hudsonguy

If you live in a highly populated area, you've probably got several things to choose from. I live in a rural area, and even though I'm only 5 miles from a city of a quarter million population, I don't have much choice besides dial-up at this point. No cable is run to the road I live on, I have too many trees for the dish to get a signal from the satellite, so it appears the only option I would have would be Verizon Wireless DSL. Unfortunately, that costs money I'd rather spend elsewhere, to say nothing of the hardware we'd have to buy to hook up the computer to it. So....dial-up it is.

rambos_ride

Another issue I just ran into is - I have cable so have a decent pipe to the internet (8mb down 756k up) but I only have 1 pc directly wired into the connection out in my garage.

My other computers are connected via wireless network so are limited to 56k transfer rate - probably not all that uncommon of a setup these days.

Normally I don't have any issues with photos if the file sizes are reasonable.

Anway just thought I'd ad this configuration to the discussion because until there is a significantly increase in wireless network speed one almost need to allow for the "lowest common configuration" to be available to the masses.

[Deleted User]

One problem I have (not necessarily with car pics though) is that my wife likes to email photos to her mom overseas, but also likes to print some photos out at home to give away to friends, etc. That means I have to have a large file pic for printing purposes and a resized smaller pic for emailing overseas (her mom has only dial-up). I have resorted to labeling the smaller file pics with a "b" after the file name to differentiate it from the large file sized pic.

Jay

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P.S. I think I voted wrong by marking cable (since its thru my local cable company) but its really fiber optic so I guess I should have voted T-1 or higher. Oh well, I never said I was a genius........just God!

Jay LOL

Unknown

I'm further surprised with the number of dial-up folks.



Dan, i think you are correct in your assertion about the wireless...



with my DSL, I actually am limited to the wireless speed, which still seems fast, compared to what I realized over the dial-up. And the flexibility of where i want to surf with the laptop, outside, in the bathroom, lay in bed, sit and watch TV. the flexibiity is very valuable to me.



Jay,

As far as taking pictures, I bet I have printed but a few. That's the low point of digital photography. my DSLR has just taken it's 4000th picture today, I had it right about a year, not bad for a amatuer. Sort of time for a new camera, if you ask me. Last year, i was still shooting with the other camera, as well, and I logged about 2000 on that one as well. Figure roughly 6000 pictures, and maybe a dozen printed, at best.

Unknown

rambos_ride wrote:

Another issue I just ran into is - I have cable so have a decent pipe to the internet (8mb down 756k up) but I only have 1 pc directly wired into the connection out in my garage.



My other computers are connected via wireless network so are limited to 56k transfer rate - probably not all that uncommon of a setup these days.

Are you saying your wireless only transfers data at 56k speeds? Maybe I misunderstood. Wireless routers can transfer data at plenty fast speeds, like 108Mbps (whatever THAT is! ) I'm using one right now for my cable internet and both connections are fast.



Jerry

rambos_ride

I suggest checking your connection from your wireless PC... I checked mine, and am getting a bit over 4mb down and close to 756k up.

Please understand that 802.11b is 10Mb, and 80211.a/g is 56Mb.

Don't be confused That's 10Mbps (megabits per second not megabytes - which would be MB instead of Mb)

I haven't wanted to spend the several hundred dollars to upgrade my wireless access point (router) and corresponding recievers

I'm still running 802.11g with an average of 54Mbps on the wireless portion of the network.

rambos_ride

Understood... Mb=Megabit, MB=Megabyte

I figured you'd know the difference - I just thought others might not...

BTW the newest wireless standard is the 802.11N that claims to be "up to 12x faster than 802.11g"