I'm sort of in Misha's ball park, I rarely post anything over 180k in the galleries, but occasionally I just have to, (well I don't, but like Bev I dislike too much loss) I hhave a 17" Monitor (read 15" screen real estate) and my settings are at 1024 x 768, so I apoligise to anybody else who has smaller screens & seettings like Jordy, if they have to scroll. Forum postings I try to keep around the 100k or lower mark, but as usual there are exceptions...I have a relatively slow dial-up, so the load times for images are probably as slow as anyone can get, but I don't mind ususally, because most images are usually worth waiting for. The only thing I will say is that iit cuts down onthe available time I have for browsing the galleries, visiting the forum etc!