This is interesting. Last night, I fixed dinner while my BN downloaded 58 e-mails in about 30 minutes. Sometimes it is fast but not often, and this was with a wireless card. It's been this way from the beginning. Resetting the machine helps sometimes, but not always. a 456 reset doesn't always help either. So I don't know what the problem is but it's not fast for me. The trash was emptied and data base freed. So that doesn't help either.
I might add on an evening when it was happily in the fast mode it downloaded a large e-mail quickly. The other thing is when it is in slow mode, the BN beeps a number of times before it disconnects from the pop server. Very interesting. Sue Mangis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Henrichsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]> Sent: August 09, 2005 2:54 PM Subject: Re: [Braillenote] MPower and email report > Hi, Cathy. This is a really long message. Only read it if you are > interested in my email observations between the bn classic and the MPower. > If you download, read and clear 50 messages per time, you won't have a > problem. Although, I still must say that even downloading 50 messages on > the MPower is faster than downloading the same 50 messages on the bn > classic. I haven't timed it with a stopwatch, but I bet it takes a minute > on the classic and 30 seconds on the MPower. > I downloaded enough email to know how my unit worked. When I was working > for Kurzweil at ACB, I had an entire week to only be able to read my email > on the bn. I was able to do this wirelessly almost all of the time except > for the time or two I used my wife's cell phone to get mail. It was always > slower on the older bn. > With the new one, I have seen three messages download in one second, but > usually it is two and occasionally, depending on the size of the message, > one per second with the MPower. > At least for me, the problem came when I tried to download a whole bunch of > mail at once, say 400. Even if I downloaded 100 and then stopped, > reconnected and downloaded the next 100, as I approached 400 messages in my > inbox at once, the bn would slow down to a crawl. I remember one day at ACB > where I couldn't even download all of my mail because it was close to 500 > messages. The more over 400 I got, the slower it downloaded, maybe one > message every 15 seconds or even longer. The higher I went over 400, the > slower it became until I just gave up in frustration and disconnected. > I had to download as much as I could, read and delete them and clear the > database, then go back up and download whatever remained on the server. > With the MPower, that doesn't happen any more. I downloaded, recently, a > little over 500 messages then another 125 at a later date not reading the > first group. Before I started reading, I had 625 messages in my inbox, > something unheard of with my old unit. > My next concern is this. On my old unit, as I brought up the email, I would > read the subject line and find I wasn't interested in that message. I would > press control 8 on the qt to have the email moved immediately to the trash. > Sometimes, this worked immediately and very well. At other times, which was > most of the time, for no reason that I could figure out, I would press > control 8 and wait for anywhere from 5 to 15 seconds for the command to be > carried out. Needless to say, it was really tedious to read 300 plus > messages that way. It took forever. > With the MPower, I might wait 2-3 seconds on some occasions, maybe even > four, but most of the time, pressing control 8 dumps the message immediately. > On the bn classic, even if you marked the messages then moved them to the > trash later, that could take a long time. Try moving 350 messages to the > trash at one time. With the MPower, this is markedly faster. > As I mentioned before, I opened the King James old testament in around 25 > seconds. On the bn classic, this took around two minutes. AAgain, I didn't > have a stopwatch to time this so I might be off by a second or two. > On the bn classic, I would try copying an mp3 file from a folder on my hard > drive. More than once, my bn would lock up somewhere during the download > process forcing me to do a reset. Grant you, I have only downloaded one > thing from my hard drive with the MPower, but I had no problems. > With the bn classic, I might and I might not be able to connect with > activesync. On the MPower, All I need do is to connect the usb cable and > then turn the unit on. I am immediately connected. > I haven't played enough with the media player to know if it is better with > larger files, but occasionally, while doing this with the bn classic, I > would lock the unit up forcing a reset. > Well, These are my observations for what they are worth. I am very pleased > with the MPower. > I feel that if I had to be away from my computer for a while, and only had > my MPower, I could get along very well. > > At 8/8/2005, you wrote: > > >Paul, > >I'm really glad you're so pleased with your new MPOWER, but I wonder, do > >you have or can you make specific tests to compare email download > >performance between your new andold units? i.e. > > > >downloading the same 100 messages with both and timing the downloads? > > > >Doing it a second time to see if things get slower when the unit gets more > >crowded as happens with the voicenote I have. > > > >Personally, I do my email 50 at a time and then clear the inbox and free > >up database space after emptying the trash and it seems pretty merrily > >quick. So I ws just wondering what the actual difference is. > > > >So far I've not come across enough in the mPower beyond what I have in my > >voicenote and my Creative Labs MuVo together to make me feel the need for > >the new toy...but I'm still looking cuz I love reasons to come up with the > >need for new toys. > > > >___ > >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > >http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > > > > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >
