Just kidding, guy! I guess I should have put a winking smiley ;-) to tip you
off. In truth, I'm using a TCI cable modem.

Bob Hughes <inv### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
news:3714262E.C1FC0447@aol.com...
> I'll verify that. This was one of the lengthiest d/l's of a Jpg I've
> ever gotten here. Think one of the others was that mercury liquid/solid
> image posted a while back.
> At least this looked pretty good ;) so I won't complain.
> 2400 baud modem?! Upgrade! But unless you have guarantee of a good phone
> connection only get a 33.6K modem, I have a V.90 (upgraded from 56K to
> no avail) here doing 26.4K and d/l's from the newsgroups are even slower
> at only 0.1K, sometimes less sometimes more.
>
>
> David Cook wrote:
> >
> > Waddaya griping about? It took me 30 minutes to download this image on
my
> > 2400 baud modem!
> >
> > Scott McDonald <sco### [at] metrolinkcom> wrote in message
> > news:371406BC.B6D94EE1@metrolink.com...
> > > Nicholas DePetrillo wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Oh by the way...It took about 30 min to render on my PC... 50 mgz
> > celeron,
> > > > (400 overclocked) and it was converted to Jpeg by adobe photoshop.
> > >
> > > 30 minutes is the forever it took to render?  <THWAP!>
> > > Interesting piece, would be more interesting with a bit of a ground
> > > texture and a sky though.  And of course would take much longer to
> > > render, but I think it'd be worth it.
> > >
> > > (30 minutes, geez, the candle dragon pic takes 30 minutes on my k6/2
333
> > > at 512x384)
>
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