ssih - 1:01 pm on Jun 12, 2002 (gmt 0)

As recently as this past February, the absolute fastest speed available to me was 26k. I was too far for DSL, there was no cable modem access, hills and trees blocked me from the satellites, and the phone wiring in the streets was so degraded that I couldn't even get a speed of 28.8.

So I'd often turn off images when I was going to graphics heavy sites.

However... I think that anyone who browses with images turned off understands the ramifications of this and realizes that there are likely graphic buttons that they're not seeing. But any half-decent website will have the alt tags populated, and it should still be simple to navigate.