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Any easy way to serve pages based on bandwidth speed?

I got a client who wants to serve a rotating banner of very heavy images (some as much as 326kb) on his homepage. On a fast connection, that's not a problem.

But on a dial-up connection I am right now (overseas, in the middle east), waiting for his homepage to load is a long ordeal. I can't imagine anyone wanting architectural work bad enough to sit thru this: http://leadinc.no/drupal7/ 

The client doesn't want to spend more money and I've done a lot of freebies already.

But even half of America is still dialup - isn't that true? I don't dare to show this site to anyone lest they have dialup and think my work is crap.

Is there some easy-to-setup script to measure client bandwidth (or just measure loading  time) and switch to a pre-determined lighter page?

Site is built on Drupal 7, php, served on apache, linux.
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Thank you. I will post if I ever do anything about it.