Hi cyberblood.

I stopped using the pached /core gallery module not because of speed but because it was constantly writing error log entries.
IMO: the best galery module I have seen, and the one I use is Simple Gallery from Ventrian http://www.ventrian.com

For $25 you get the excellent simple gallery module plus some other very useful modules such as an Article module thats worth the price alone.

See Simple Gallery on one of my sites http://www.royal-southern.co.uk/Cruising/CruisingMedia/tabid/94/Default.aspx
Used here in "lightbox" mode It even works in Safari. (clunk-clunk)

Best $25 I have spent for a long time.

Hope this helps

Weird, i just check and like you said, its almost instantaneous. and i havent change anything since i post, usually was taking about 10 sec to load the gallery to show the albums, and them another 10 sec to enter the album, after being inside the album (i dont have any sub albums) works flawlessly and you can looks at the pictures fine.

I really dont have a explanation but i guess i should be happy that now works fine, i will try again tomorrow at a different time to see if it still works.

and also Betacam thanks for pointing me to ventrian.com, that image module looks really nice and its a nice deal, im sure considering into buying it.

Thanks to both of you that post a repply, its nice to see there is people willing to help me. :D