The Down Low on the Upload

    In case you haven't been keeping up with my attempts at social media dominance, I have a YouTube channel.  I just posted my latest video in the series I call "Making the Logo." Now, I usually try and post a video every three weeks.  I was a little late with my latest one, as I had to wait until I had a window of opportunity to film it-- an empty store, no urgent business, at least ten minutes of free time.  I also try and post these videos the day I make them.  Well, last Friday, I was so busy with other things, that I forgot to post my video until it was all but time to go to bed.  I didn't want to waste any sleep time, so I decided to wake up a little early and upload the video Saturday morning, after I finished up my regular morning computer time.  That morning, I went to the site and started uploading my video.  After I finished up with the basic information, I left my computer and did another morning chore.  Now, it usually only takes about ten to fifteen minutes for even the longest of my videos to upload, including the time it takes to place the links onto Facebook and LinkedIn.  Well, to my surprise, barely 5% of the video had uploaded in almost ten minutes.  This was confounding me.  I was wondering if I did something wrong, so I cancelled the initial upload and started over.  This time, I got up to 10% before I had to stop and finish getting ready for work.  I had no choice but to try uploading it from my store.  The problem with that was that not only did this mean I had to forego some other tasks, but I have bad internet service there.  While faster than what it was taking me at home, the initial estimate was going to be over an hour to post a video under four minutes long.  Fortunately, the estimate was wrong.  It only took about thirty minutes to upload the video, with a few more to cross-post the links onto my other sites.  I rushed through the YouTube process, and I missed the part where I could save time by posting on multiple sites at once.  Still, everything worked out, except for one thing.  I couldn't post a link to the video on my store's Facebook page.  That part, I would have to do separately.  I kept forgetting to do that all through the weekend.  I finally remembered, and I found the time one morning, before work.  Strangely enough, I had no problems posting my video onto Facebook.  I barely took any time at all.  Now, I must admit that I used the basic uploading process and not the more elaborate and detailed one the business sites can use.  The post was less flashy, but was up in under ten minutes.  Maybe much less.  The only difference with this time and the original tries was that I didn't use YouTube.  This led me to believe that I experienced problems Saturday morning because of the new cable service.  Instead of getting programming through a cable antenna source, everything was coming in through an app tied to Google and YouTube.  The plus side to this is well over two hundred channels to watch, including some pay services as a regular part of the deal.  The downside is that which watching programming on the stream, I really can't upload anything directly without the slowdown.  I have watched YouTube content on my computer at the same time as watching the television, without any problems with either.  I'm guessing that uploading and watching YouTube at the same time will now cause problems to the former while doing the latter.  I'll now more the next time I post a video, so I'll be on the lookout for problems.  And allotting at least a half an hour for the task.