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I have a suggestion to help all of us dialup users. I have a hell of a long wait when I dowload images. Not just this site, but any site. Maybe there could be a way to limit the size (bytes) of pictures that are linked? Maybe people could be asked to not go over a certain size? Maybe there could be a way for genvibe to "downgrade" the size of pice for dial up users that we could set up in the "my profile" section?Just a thought

I have had cable internet access for a number of years now, but I remember the days of 1200 baud modems and dialing up bbs's, so I fully understand and remember others out there don't have broadband access.I try to reduce the size of my pictures (both dimensions and file size) to 640 x 480 or so and reduce the dpi or compression, whatever your paint program calls it so I get about a 65kb or so file size. It still looks decent, and comes through in a fraction of the time as the original picture's 1.5mb size. By reducing the picture file sizes, it also makes the forum owners happier due to the reduced bandwidth needed.

Quote, originally posted by cohocarl »By reducing the picture file sizes, it also makes the forum owners happier due to the reduced bandwidth needed.Another good reason

i thought we had a limit on picture size already? i run both cable and dial up at times. on my dial up, it's a little slower, but not bad, only when there are 20 pics in the thread do i have issues.

I use aol, don't know if that is an issue. I think the local dialup numbers here are pretty bad too, so that may play a role. When there is a pic that I want to see, and it is bigger than the screen so you have to scroll to see it, I usually have to wait about 2-3 minutes before I can see the whole thing. It's probably just my ISP though.

i use aol for my dial up connection as well. no probs really. but i also use explorer for looking anything up.

Quote, originally posted by noginsk »I use aol, don't know if that is an issue. I think the local dialup numbers here are pretty bad too, so that may play a role. When there is a pic that I want to see, and it is bigger than the screen so you have to scroll to see it, I usually have to wait about 2-3 minutes before I can see the whole thing. It's probably just my ISP though.I agree I have DSL so its no problem but its still a pain to have a picture bigger than the window and you have to scroll left. right, up, down to see it. Its nice to have a right size picture that you open and the whole image fits in a screen without scrolling.