Theresa And what's that magical number of e-mail? I have several folders and about 100 messages still residing in the in box. Thanks.
Sue Mangis > ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Theresa Winebrenner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected] >Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:05:32 -0500 >Subject: Re: [Braillenote] MPower and email report >Paul, >You are right about the large number of email on the BN slowing it down. I >also found out the painful way, that when the BN reaches its maximum number >of emails, it starts deleting email to make room for new email to be >downloaded. But, yes, it definitely slows the works down. >Theresa >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Paul Henrichsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "Susan Mangis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Braillenote List" ><[email protected] >Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 4:49 PM >Subject: Re: [Braillenote] MPower and email report >> Hi, Sue. Did you have any email still left on the bn? I found that with >> the bn classic, the closer I got to 400 messages, the slower it got. If I >> had no email at all, it was usually pretty fast, taking a minute or two to >> download 50 messages; certainly not 30 minutes until I approached that >> magic number of 400. >> Interesting. >> At 8/9/2005, you wrote: >>>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 >>>___ >>>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 >___ >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
