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After couple of days of reviewing on a modem.... I'm about to toss the "#¤%& thing out the window |pcsucks|

What I really wanted to say is that any pics over 50kB is a pain to wait for it to completely load.
So if you don't want to miss out on the modem surfers. Don't have 1024x768 pics that are 150kB, or 1024x768 that are 50kB = crap quality.
A pic that are 600 on the longest side and 50kB can be of excellent quality. Be nice to the modem surfers and the broadband surfers |thumb

And if you can make the pics less than 50kB and still of good quality that's even better ;)

Do you think there are many modem surfers around these days? I mean, modem surfers that actually buy subscriptions?

Last year I was waiting for my broadband access for about a week and was using a 33.6k modem and it was painfull for the time being. With this connection I would have never got the idea to surf for porn and pay a dime for it as I would not have been able to enjoy it.

I have tried hard to compress images as well as possible but if you want to reflect the details and quality of an image it is hard to make them smaller then 100kb. If you do, you will need to compromize on quality significantly. Okay, you can make them smaller, but smaller pics do not leave the same impression on a surfer then standard sized images. Just my 2 cents .... I believe poeple look for quality in images as it is harder and harder to sell stills because everybody goes for movies these days.

Did people signup when 95% of them were on modem? Hell yeah.

There's still a lot of areas in the WORLD that can't get broadband access and just because they can't get broadband doesn't mean they don't wanna bust a nut :)

Just because you can get broadband, doesn't mean everyone can.

that's true - and mostly people new to the internet start out with a smallband access

I read somewhere that the US is still 50/50 between dial-up and high speed... and I would bet that a lot of dial-up surfers aren't looking to wait to download movies when they are surfing.... pics take long enough

Any site that has pics larger than 100KB gets deleted here. I believe Link-O-Rama and others have the same rule.

hehe, somene just submitted a freesite with pictures of 1 MB :D LOL

I do agree there has to be some limit. However. The images I use are supposed to reflect the quality of the paysite im promoting, this example being Met Art. I download the high quality images from Met which are often 3000 pixels wide, and 500KB plus. Great quality stuff. I have to do my best to get them under 100kb, which I have no problem with. Im able to keep nice quality in my images at 1024 pixels, If I had to lower the quality, or make them 600 pixels, I believe very much that that would reflect badly on the sponsor in the surfers POV, they dont know that the quality is that much better at the paysite, they go off of what they see. Atleast for the most part.

I do feel for modem users, and im sorry you had to be on a modem for so long swed, but it will be a cold day in hell when my images reflect the sponsor poorly, if it takes the modem surfers twice as long to download the image, so be it, atleast they get quality, and that reflects on the sponsor.

It really is kind of hard in a set of 20-30 images, because optimized just the same, one image may be 55kb, while another image (say, with a tree that has alot of leaves in the background) will be 95kb. If I had to make the maximum 50kb, then images such as this would look very awful, or be very small...

Hope you understand where IM coming from, I do understand where you as a reviewer on a modem are coming from.

"if it takes the modem surfers twice as long to download the image, so be it"

That's the problem. They will not wait for it to load, they will go to the next site. I can imagine it's no fun wanking off to a forehead for a minute until the breasts show up ;)

Depends on the forehead. ;)

Swed's right. You have to balance the needs of both dial-up and broadband users. Most of my friends are on dial-up and it's not a financial issue. They just happen to live in very rural areas where cable companies haven't yet travelled. I live in the middle of little city and I can drive 10 minutes in direction and be out of any cable/broadband carriers market. Hell, my parents can't even get DSL because the phone lines out their way aren't good enough.

I personally can't stand really big pics. I don't want to have to scroll all over the place to check a babe out.