Slightly Puzzled: Lr sync from iPad 11” and Cloud Quota

[SEY]

I'm giving Lr Mobile a shot.  My desired workflow is to use my iPad (11") as my traveling photography management platform.  I will load images from SD (not unusual to shot 300-500 images in a day) to the iPad.  These images for now will be DNG, but may eventually become JPG after I've convinced myself they are fine for my purposes.

I signed up for the free trial to give the management side of Lr a test; I'm not too worried about the editing capabilities.

For both these tests, I had the iPad plugged in and the don't allow sleep option set to on.

My first test was pretty easy: 51 files, .964 GB.  Frankly much smaller than a typical days work.  Syncing to cloud took 16 minutes.  That's about 1 mb/s throughput.  Pretty slow if you ask me.  I tested my network and it's as it has been for many years; 250-400 mb/s download, 15 mb/s upload.

The second test was a little more realistic for my use: 259 files, 3.13 GB.  The speed didn't scale well, it took about 2.5 hours to do the sync.  That is about 1/2 mb/s throughput.

What is the deal here?  I'm sorry for having to ask, but, I've not been able to websurf up any real answers to this.

Can you help?

[SEY]

Hi:

Perhaps this question scrolled of the front page of the forum too quickly.

Does anyone have input on this issue?

Thanks,

Kevin

[Kac1]

I'm doing the same thing now as you're contemplating. Our workflows and project sizes are similar enough. 

The problem with a comparison is I have 100 up and down. Although I've never put a watch on it, just checking passively, everything seems to sync in a very reasonable timeline. 

Now this past weekend I was doing a shoot on the road and was in a hotel with about 5 mbps. I had several hundred shots on my card, and again although I wasn't specifically checking, by the time I did a number of edits and had a Coke and a sandwich, it all appeared to be done. I do shoot Raw + jpg fine in my Z 6 so I do have a reasonable file size. It's a non-issue in my experience and I love being able to take my iPad Pro on the road. 

Any chance your iPad has a slower data rate for some reason? Mine is the most recent large one.