TucsonTerry has got it right. It's nothing to do with upload or download speed. It's now about 1530 on Monday afternoon and I've just uploaded 30 images of about 200 to 230 Kb each in less than five minutes. There's nothing wrong with my upload speed there and this is how it used to be on Auctiva, an absolute breeze but I guarantee that if I'd tried to upload the same pictures after about 5 or 6 this evening it would have taken literally hours of frustration. It never used to be that bad, that's my point, something in Auctiva's system has changed and made things worse. Any other web site I use in the evenings is fine, I can download an ebay listing with images in seconds, watch a rerun of a BBC TV programme or a Youtube item with video without any problems so download is fine elsewhere but Auctiva grinds to a virtual halt. I would stress that the rest of the Auctiva site is fine, I can move around it without problems, it's the image and compiling a listing, even downloading a previous listing to edit brings the same problem. I have always listed in the early evening and it's not always possible to alter my routine.