Re: [Braillenote] MPower and email report

Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:19:48 -0800 

Sue,
I think its around 436 on the inbox. But I don't remember the number in the folders. But, if I had to guess, its around 720 in the folders. Now I'm sure people are going to wonder why I had saved so many on my BN. While I was in New York attending the Helen Keller National Center, the BN was all I had, so I was using it to its max. Unfortunately, to my great disappointment, I never did figure out how to save my email to a storage card. 
Theresa
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Mangis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
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Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] MPower and email report



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]
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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]
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Sent: August 09, 2005 2:54 PM
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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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