Thanks for the link Wendy. Glad it works for you and that would be great for others who struggle through these photo image downloads. I may even try it with my 200kps dsl to give it more juice. 14 day trial is worth trying.
Mark,
I’d be interested to hear your findings, if you go ahead with it.
Dick
Wendy, I always supposed one of the benefits of rural life is the ability to escape from the rush of urban life.
Now you are bringing the city to the country?
😉
Leen
I wonder about the image quality. Does OnSpeed double compress already compressed images like AOL does? I always here complaints about AOL’s compression from students in my on line classes.
Patti
Leen … I do love rural life but it sure would be nice to have the city visit us sometimes 🙂
Patti … With Onspeed you get a little pop up box which lets you adjust the compression. At the moment I’m using it at about midway and have not noticed any problems at all … but if I wanted to download an image to work on then there is the option to adjust the compression (easy to do as its just a little slider … and you don’t even need to come off the internet to adjust it). According to the info at the highest setting the original image will be retrieved.
Wendy
Thanks Wendy. I was trying to catch up with all these threads that I missed over the past few+ days. Got it Bookmarked for a ‘calmer’ day. Thanks ! Oh, please keep us posted if you run into any problems with it 🙂
Jodi,
No problems so far and it has made a real difference in speed … I am now trying to get used to using it. There are 6 speeds ranging from fast to slow … for this forum any of the settings is OK as the forum is mainly text.
If I want to look at the challenge entries then the 4th setting (towards the fast end) is OK for loading the thumbnails but looking at individual images (which are fairly low resolution) it is better to drop the speed to 2.
Downloading images is best done at 1 which gives you the image just as it is posted on the site but downloading anything else (brush sets etc) seems fine on 4. Changing the speed setting is really easy and you can do it in seconds …
When I am on the internet I tend to spend most of the time on "text" sites like this one … so I am gaining a lot by being able to use a much faster speed. If I spent most of the time looking at images then I wouldn’t gain much at all.
Will keep you posted
Wendy
