If you are at a distance from the server and traffic on the web is heavy, it can take you much more than that minute and a half. Try downloading sound files at a time when traffic on the internet is light. After everyone else has gone to bed or early in the morning. Set your browser so that it will save the sound file on your hard disk and play it later. That way, if you want to hear it again you won't have to download it all over again.
Some browsers have the capability of having two or more windows open at the same time.
You can set one window to download the sound file while you continue browsing in the other window. Because the sound file arrives at your server much more slowly than your modem can receive the information, you can be downloading more than one file at the same time. This website has been written and designed by Joe Kurland with graphic elements created by Peggy Davis and Joe Kurland. We welcome your comments on the contents and design of the site. Joe and Peggy are available to design your web page too.