| I'm no expert but here's what I would look for.  have them compress them to JPEGs instead of bitmaps or tiff.  I have found that zipping jpegs doesn't reduce the size much. 
 Ask them to send you a CD instead?
 
 Ask them to send to someone near you who had cable and have them burn you a cd.
 
 get verison DSL.  Now only 14.95 per month which is lower than a lot of dial ups.  its slower than broadband but way faster than dial up.
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