[js1138]

Just an aside -- FR doesn't host images, so the speed of FR should be independent of picture posting. All that gets delivered by FR is the links to the images.

[Grampa Dave]

What happens if several hundred of us are waiting 3-5 minutes for those images to appear on our machine.

That to me means a blockage of the system and possible overload of the server.

I don't go to those image loaded threads. Even with a new and very powerful pentium and the special image loading ram, it takes forever for those sites to load and to go to the next thread.