I have a high speed connection, but the animated pictures do definitely slow me down, the rest don't. I'm really not a fan of the tickers at all, I say, one AG related one if you're also going to use text and/or pictures, two if they are your whole signature. I also think we should just create sample siggies and put them in the rules. Then people can compare their own to the samples. Also, what are we limited to if all we have is text (yeah, that's about me, lol)? So, samples, samples samples!!!!