[iamnotmad]

Hi if anyone has a Linksys router befsr41 and .Mac, please try to do a homepage publish from iPhoto. After some recent changes with the .Mac services everytime I do this approx 1-4 pics are left out of the album (files transfered are 0 byte files).

I've pretty much hit a wall with apple on this, I need some more support to hopefully get them to do something!!

Anyone that can please try and if you have the problem please post here. Also, please post at the .Mac support (for paid members) discussion group under iPhoto.

Thanks veru much!

If you have this config, and do not see this problem, please respond as well.

[starman]

I've had one of those for years and never, EVER had an issue with it.

And yes, I've done the iPhoto thing.

Mike

[iamnotmad]

Originally posted by starman:
I've had one of those for years and never, EVER had an issue with it.

And yes, I've done the iPhoto thing.

Mike

Thanks for the response Starman, I've had one for years as well, without ever an issue until fairly recently. When was the last time you tried an iPhoto homepage publish to .Mac?
Thanks.

[gorickey]

I take it you have all that latest firmware patches and stuff? If you don't go through the router, everything works perfectly? Problem goes away?

[iamnotmad]

Originally posted by gorickey:
I take it you have all that latest firmware patches and stuff? If you don't go through the router, everything works perfectly? Problem goes away?

Yes, to all of those.

At one point in talking with apple they made some server changes while I was on the phone with them that fixed it, but shortly after (after we got off the phone) they reverted back, and it stopped working for me. Later after some prodding they told me those changes that made it work for me broke it for others so they had to switch it back.


I also discovered on my own that serverly reducing the MTU setting on either the router or my mac would make it work, but that also slows my internet connection and should not be necessary. I have to lower it to far below recommended levels (I've found the strange value of 640 to work). Through ping tests my ISP and the sites I'm trying to reach fully support the maximum and recommended MTU of 1500 (i'm on DSL but not pppoe)

[starman]

Originally posted by iamnotmad:
Thanks for the response Starman, I've had one for years as well, without ever an issue until fairly recently. When was the last time you tried an iPhoto homepage publish to .Mac?
Thanks.

Last week.

Mike

[nemanirc]

I have an old Linksys router and am having the same problem! I have a thread started in the .mac discussion forum.

[iamnotmad]

Originally posted by nemanirc:
I have an old Linksys router and am having the same problem! I have a thread started in the .mac discussion forum.

Nemanirc, have you heard anything else from apple (besides what's on the support forum)?

Has iPhoto publishing ever worked for you with that router? It has for me in the past, not until some relatively recent changes Apple made to the .Mac service have I had any problem.

Thanks for help.

[nemanirc]

I have a bunch of photo albums I have posted over the last two years and have never had this problem. I post all of them from the same G3 through the same Linksys router.

[iamnotmad]

Originally posted by nemanirc:
I have a bunch of photo albums I have posted over the last two years and have never had this problem. I post all of them from the same G3 through the same Linksys router.

nemanirc, I saw your post on the apple discussion groups re: MTU setting.

Through my own research (IOW, no thanks to apple) I discovered that adjusting the MTU setting can possible make the publishing work. however the value I have found that it must be set to in order to work s too low to keep it that way. At least as a temp workaround, if it works for you, you can set it to this then publish, then set it back.

You can change the MTU in your router at the config page Advanced>Filters.

It's at the bottom. Set it to 640 and click enable radio button. Then apply the changes.

or you can change it in OSX in System Preferences:
~ Go to Network, double click your built-in ethernet.
~ Then click the ethernet tab
~ change configure popup list to "manually"
~ Click the radio button next to Custom, under MTU.
~ Type in 640
~ Click apply now.

Important notes:

~ 640 is the max value that I have found to work, I have not really tried anything between 640 and like 1100 or so, so higher could be possible.
~ I would recommend, for temp changes to publish, set it on your mac, not in the router. 1) for ease and convenience and 2) it will only fragment data from that machine, whereas if you set it in the router any machine on your network has to suffer with that reduced packet size.

If you get a chance to try it, let me know how it goes!

Hope that helps!

[iamnotmad]

nemanirc, some more notes. Please keep an eye on my post in the apple disc groups, I'll continue to psot there in hopes I give the engineers enough info to do something about this.

Anyway, I noticed that after setting to 640 then publishing, I can then set it bakc to 1500 and continue to publish successfully. Very strange. However a reboot and some other occurences that I am not specifically aware of make it stop publishing successfuly.

Let me kwno your results.
Thanks.

[nemanirc]

Let me kwno your results.
Thanks.

It worked. I chagned the settings on the router's configuration page as well as my Mac's system settings to MTU=640. Not sure why that would have anything to do with anything…