Hi Sarah, Hang in there, you're not alone! <Big Friendly Grin> Have you gone into wireless options and disabled both search for new network and connect to non-preferred network? I did this, and suddenly found myself just slightly more sane when surfing the web with the BN. As far as the file download gremlin, I know a bunch of us are struggling with this. I'm sure HW knows about it and is working hard, as usual, to get it fixed and get all of us unhappy downloaders to stop crying. I do have to say, it sure does make it interesting to collect games, my latest packrat hobby. <Smiles all around!>
Sarah -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sarah Van Oosterwijck Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 1:59 PM To: Braillenote List Subject: [Braillenote] browsing experience If there is a better place to send this than to the list I am certainly willing to send it to anyone appropriate. I too have now had the problem of only being able to download one bookshare file before all subsequent downloads attempted will at some point fail. I believe this problem also may have prevented streaming a file as well, since all I got when I tried to stream something was a lot of progress beeps and a please wait message that never went away. My BrailleNote was then frozen and all keystrokes caused error tones and nothing else. Reset again, and it is getting a bit ridiculous. I also want to comment again on the message of "connected to ..." while using wireless. It is hard for me to explain just how annoying and disturbing I find that message while browsing. Can it be that I am really the only person who finds this a hinderence to both productivity and enjoyment in browsing? Does this message really serve a purpose when you can at any time go and check your connection in the options menu? Being told you are connected when you first connect is useful, and it would also be good if you were told if a disconnect occurs, but this constant chatter or theft of the braille display for that purpose seems really pointless. I may be a bit over sensitive to recurring messages, since they give me a feeling of impatients, of time or battery running out, and of anxiety, but even if people do not have a tendancy to feel pressed by such things, I am sure they have better things to do than hear or read that message. I really should have timed how long it is between messages before writing this, but I know it is very frequent. If an option can not be created to turn off these announcements completely, PLEASE at least make them less frequent. I think, other than bug fixes, this would be my number one request, and I'd really prefer to have it changed before the next version, since to me it seems like a programming defect. There are so many options and features that can be turned on or off, I really can't imagine why this wasn't one of them. Thank you so much for reading my entire message. Please don't take this as a rant, but instead a simple plea for my sanity. :-) Sarah Van Oosterwijck Assistive Technology Trainer http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity ___ 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
