When you use Google Images, do you have to scroll slowly so that you don't get solid grey squares? See detail?

My download speed is fairly fast (about 4.8 mb/s), so I can scroll fairly fast without seeing any gray squares.

So a person can increase dowload speed, without changing computers?

That is not related to the power of your computer, but rather, it is based on the speed of your connection (and the speed of the website’s connection). After all, you are loading those images from all across the internet.

Yeah, increased (or decreased) download speed can happen without changing computers. If the connection is just having issues, if there is interference (if you use wireless), if there are more people sharing the connection, if you’re downloading files already. Those will all change your effective speed using the internet.
Some days, my connection slows to a crawl for no apparent reason, and I can’t even load images or emails from Google.

Depending on who your internet provider is (Cox, Roadrunner, ATT, etc.) you can spend more money to get a stronger connection.

I have an 18mbps connection, and I still have to scroll moderately slowly for the image previews to load – it really annoys me, actually.

@flo

If you want to, you can test your download and upload speeds here.

I’m on a 40 meg cable connection, and I get those till the page fully loads, but once loaded I have to scroll really fast to see the effect.

@Brian1946 I don’t know maybe it is a temporary problem.
@Sarcasm, I use public computers so not allowed/possible to download anything.
-The same computers my gmail account has never done “Loading loading loading” when scrolling.
@ETpro ”...but once loaded I have to scroll really fast to see the effect” I don’t get that part, it sounds interesting.
@the100thmonkey, even the 40mbs (see @ETpro has a problem)
Thanks all.
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@flo

“I use public computers…”

A lot of public computers use firewalls that impede image loading, so that might be why you’re getting the gray squares.

@flo The old GOogle image search used to come up with just three rows of images, and pagination so you could click to additional pages should you wish. Not so anymore. The new UI loads all the images in one long page. It appears for me pretty quickly. But is I try to instantly scroll from the top all the way to the bottom of several hundred images, I will start to see grey boxes whizzing by instead of loaded image thumbnails.

I am using another public computer, and in this one each page shows 5 rows or so of images At the other library, with the grey square, each page is long, (has many more rows). Could that be what causes the problem?

@Brian1946
@ETpro
...I meant or one of the causes… I see that you addressed it in your first paragraph, @ETpro.
I see no grey squares in the 5 row a page case.