yet more bgafd 3 pix

[woodgnome]

a further three galleries have been added to the 3rd bgafd event page, in the miscellany. many thanx to gary, magic jism and tag for permission to host their pix.

[steve56]

im so glad we have the set now surely,ilook pissed in the 1 with faye i was drinking lemonade and orange juice all night.

[Mark]

I think the server needs a major kick up the arse! 100-300bytes/sec I'm getting :-/ was the same this morning with Cromes pics.

mark

[dee]

Tell him to ut his images down. They dont all need to be in 800x600

the pics are taking ages to download. If you want fast loading pics try a format like 400x300.

[woodgnome]

i made them 800w because i wanted them 800w - the original files were considerably larger.

the i12 server is currently up the spout, which is the reason things are currently so slow. the size of the images has minimal bearing on the matter.

[dee]

Well maybe you need to check out the server response times on optimised pictures against non optimised. Theres no reason to have them so large. Larger pictures equate to larger bandwidth usage. If you have multiple users trying to download pictures from the server your going to cause problems. Even the naming conventions matter if you dont know. eg (bgafdeventpicdc106893365.jpg) would be slower than a pic simple named (bgafd1.jpg) It all helps to reduce the kb size.

[woodgnome]

i'd be interested to know just how much additional bandwidth 18 characters per file name consumes, even when multiplied a few dozen times? i would guess the answer to be somewhere in the region of bugger all! and judging by your initial post, you seem to think that the dimensions of an image are in some way pertinent, when they are not. all that matters is the file size, which is entirely independent of height and width.

your reference to optimised/non optimised pictures is also irrelevant. all jpegs are optimised to some extent because it's a lossy format, which means that every jpeg has had redundant or unnecessary information removed from it, so that images of a certain standard can be attained with the mimimum file size necessary.

and there is a reason to have them so large - because i wanted them to be that large. i think most people will appreciate the bigger images once i12 get things sorted. and there's the rub - the current problem lies with i12.com - not the galleries. try accessing - it's sloooowwwwww - or . click on the 45kb image of sylvia giving a bj - she'll have lockjaw before you get to see it...

i suppose it's possible i12 have choked access to their servers, in which case we'll be looking for a new home for our images but i suspect it's just a glitch and things will soon be back to normal.

[darkow]

Even more great sets. Thanks Magic for those pics with Sarah. Tasty!

[buttsie]

What ever the problem it seems to have resolved itself

At least for me and I'm only on a 56k modem
More like because all the downloaders are asleep

i12.com has always been a pain in my experience

The only thing slower than Joe Kings site was the old Oids World but only because every man from the surrounding solar systems were trying to download all at the same time

cheers
B....OZ Nice Piccies by the way

[Pervert]

Thanx for the excellent pictures guys !!!

Looks like we had all angles covered !!!