Slow loading auction image sizing question

[stardust]

*poof* and *poof*
Cottonwoods and Farm

Would a few of you'all paste the above auctions into the ebay search engine and tell me how fast the pix come up? -- including 'click to enlarge' on the farm listing?  I have a sneaky suspicion that my new web host is slower than snails....  Both of these are completely different in the way the pix are handled/displayed.  Need some feedback, plz. 

Edited out the listing numbers.......

[iron_chick]

The first loaded instantly (I am on a high speed wifi connection right now) but the second was noticably slower - the pics filled in from top to bottom. 

[stardust]

That's one.  Thanks, Beth.

[amy]

I'm on 5mbs cable and it loaded slow. Dialup users probably aren't going to wait for the page to load because the load times are 2-4 minutes.

item 190011328880

Total Size: 657,869 bytes

Download Times*
Connection Rate Download Time
14.4K 509.88 seconds
28.8K 254.94 seconds
33.6K 218.52 seconds
56K 131.11 seconds
ISDN 128K 40.15 seconds
T1 1.44Mbps 3.49 seconds

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/

[stardust]

Okay, you did the first one, which should be relatively fast.  I've NEVER before been accused of having slow-loading listings -- no matter WHAT size pix I had. 

I noticed the slowness when working on listings in TL -- really slow to come in for the first time, and I'm on 1.5 dsl.  Never has been that way before when I was with ipowerweb. And I tested with a number of friends on dialup...always 30 seconds or less, with lotsa pix. 

So before I consider changing anything on MY part, I think it'd be more exciting to blame my new host and possibly his clogged up server....  >

[stardust]

Okay, I've discovered that my new irfanview download has some new *add-ons* that I am not familiar with -- did not really check them out -- and the *save* button is actually doubling or quadrupling the file size of anything saved.  Oboy...  >  Lotsa work redoing ALL pix taken/sized in the last 6 months.    Well, listings are first.  Already done them once (I thought) but now have to do them again!!

[vitalfinds]

Stardust, can't you just re-size (i.e. reduce the dpi) on the ones you have?  Adobe has a bulk operation for that for instance.