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.
> >
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