Hi Being a new member of the forum I'm a bit reluctant to make too much noise, but I'm really struggling despite enjoying the site and learning a lot from it. I view the forum from both home where my broadband speed is terrible, and at work where our bandwidth is used up by more important things than me looking at my new favourite website. At both places I'm really struggling with the speed of the site because of the masses of images in the background and in adverts down the side and bottom. I use several other forums, ebay etc, and this is the only site that doesn't load quickly. Is there a way to reduce the images shown? Or will the number of images reduce as my post count goes up? On other forums I'm a member of the adverts virtually disappear if you are a registered member. As I say I'm really enjoying the site, just need to enjoy it quicker. Thanks Nasher.