GeoCities checks the referer. Period.
Watch: click the link. It won't work.
Now: click the address bar so it either selects the URL or makes an insertion point. Then press the Enter/Return key on your keyboard. Blammo! It works. Why? Last page GeoCities.
Unfortunately, GeoCities == turds. Not that I don't understand - I do. That's why I haven't put up an ftponly account on my server for you guys to upload images to
Tony - My bad. I was under the impression that you, like me, play way too much [Quake III Arena | Unreal Tournament | Et Cetera] online and would notice that. If my bandwidth spikes for a second, I lag for about 5 - drives me nuts. But yeah. I guess if you're just downloading, then you've gots no problem