@Jason Carr
Oh, i didn't mean to compress the files but to reduce request times. Since the image files are mostly less than 0.5MB it takes longer to request those files than to actually download them. If they were all packed into one zip file, it would download them with a higher and more constant speed. For example, if I copy a 2GB folder with images to another destination it takes 3 minutes. If i copy the same folder as a zip file it only takes about 10 seconds. I could be totally wrong on this, it was just an idea.