Hello Sue, Thank you for the suggestions. However, I'm the only computer user in my household. Wireless networking is also turned off so nobody can be stealing my bandwidth. Other websites containing very large images are loading in just a few seconds so I think my broadband connection is okay. Kind regards, John. Sue Barnard wrote: > Just a thought, John - is there anyone else in your house who might be using the Internet at the same time on another computer? Depending on what they're doing, that could be slowing down your connection speed. > > Sue > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Crew" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 11:29 AM > Subject: Re: Slow downloading of scanned indexes > > >> Hello Lawrence, >> >> Thank you for your reply. I have just tried again and there is a slight >> improvement. Download times now vary between about 1 and 5 minutes. >> >> John. >> >> Lawrence Pearse wrote: >>> Hello, John - I have just tried opening the link you included and downloaded the scan within a second, so I don't know what might be your problem. >>> >>> Lawrence Pearse> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:43:34 +0000> From: [email protected]> To: [email protected]> Subject: Slow downloading of scanned indexes> > Hello,> > Has anyone noticed an increase in the time it takes to download scanned > indexes during the past month? Or is it just me? My latest allocation of > scans were taking 5 to 9 minutes (per file) to download. I'm sure that > it used to take about 1 minute (or less).> > Am I fetching the files from the correct place? Here is a typical link:> http://images.freebmd.org.uk/GUS/1920/Deaths/June/ANC-04/A-J/1920D2-H-0309.jpg> > I have tried a different PC but with the same result. My broadband > speeds are also good.> > Any ideas?> > Kind regards,> > John Crew.> > FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins> FreeBMD http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/> > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] w >> it! >>> h the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> _________________________________________________________________ >>> BigSnapSearch.com - 24 prizes a day, every day - Search Now! >>> http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/117442309/direct/01/ >>> FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins >>> FreeBMD http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins >> FreeBMD http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins > FreeBMD http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >