Thanks John.
Sorry about that. It's hard to tell what is acceptable size now since everything loads at the same speed for me now. At one point I did have a 56k modem so I do know the struggles of slow loading pages.
Lesson learned.
BTW, for anyone who hasn't used a high speed connection, if you have some extra money, and you aren't buying fishing stuff, see if cable or DSL is availible in your area. It might be something you are interested in.
There are tricks on how to get stuff cheaper because these companies can be manipulated if they think they can get a sale.
For example, at the time we got the cable modem, the Wiz was offering a deal. Spend 100 bucks and you can get a free cable modem. One night, the cable company called and my dad loves to toy with telemarketers. He threw out the statement, "Why should I spend 200 bucks for your cable modem when I can go to The Wiz, spend 100 bucks, get the modem for free plus whatever I spent the hundred bucks for?" Well, luckily this telemarketer had some salemanship skills and they started talking. As it turns out after some hardball, we got the cable modem for free if we signed a contract with their company.
Hook up was easy. We have two USB ports. Plug a USB-parrallel port adapter into the USB. Plug the modem to the adapter and change our set ups.
So if you are interested, see what deals you can get.
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