Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-24253265-20171026064420

Uploads are still one of the unsolved problems of this century, they always fail with MediaWiki over mobile broadband, when the "flat rate" good for xyz MB or even a few GB with a reasonable speed is spent, and further traffic is limited to "modem speed", like GPRS or ISDN as it used to be before Y2K (when uploads almost always worked as expected.)

On folks plagued by "mobile broadband" learned quickly that Special:Upload is hopeless, that the WMF doesn't care (2011..2016), and that a JavaScript BigChunkedUpload created by a user or special upload applications (Java) permit to upload big files over shaky "mobile broadband" connections.

OTOH big on means more than 100 MB, it shouldn't enter the picture here with an upload limit of 10 MB. But after eight attempts to upload one 4.72 MB Ogg something here fails even for this modest size: The connection is either reset after 30% .. 91%, or restarts from 0% after reaching about 30% .. 50%, or just stops to do anything at all (hanging at 30% .. 50%).

Is there a workaround like BigChunkedUpload available here? Would an attempt to multi-upload the same file ten times in a row help? It's boring to baby-sit Special:Upload and restart it again when it failed. But it's cheap, the pseudo-flat-rate limited to modem-speed doesn't cost anything until the end of the month with one of those European O2 (or similar) plans.

Update: "Of course" the finally worked while I created this thread&hellip; 