"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
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Tudor, do you have broadband? The files are quite large, and it
takes the best part of a minute even with ADSL ...

Just a few seconds here, the graphics card nearly had a coronary, though :-)
Maybe it's the compression causing problems. Try these, Tudor, :-
http://www.climate-uk.com/monpre/0408_files/

Jon.