Outlook as a Service
Many people use Microsoft Outlook Express for email.
This is the Windows built-in "free" email application. While "OE" is an
easy to use email application, big brother "Outlook" is much more
robust offering calendars, appointments, schedulable tasks and more.
Outlook can be purchased as a separate application but comes with all
Microsoft Office suites.
In a large corporate setting, Outlook in combination
with an Exchange Server is very powerful, offering "company wide
calendars", "public folders" and shared resources including meeting room
scheduling and the like. Want Outlook and the
power offered by Exchange Server without the huge expense?
Microsoft is now offering Outlook as an on-line service. However the
details are somewhat sketchy to us. More information, visit the
Outlook Live site. On a High-Speed
Connection?
See just how "high-speed" it really is.
According to
DSL Reports, industry wide can expect to see something around 13%
"loss" from the rated speed e.g., if you are paying for a 256 connection
you can expect to see something around 223 as a download speed and half
that for uploading. Upload (sending) speed is
typically 1/2 the
download speed. However, in our area the loss is more like 20% or net
speed of about 205. But progressive losses? We see an average of
550 down (350 up) on our 768 connection. That is more in the area
of a 29% loss... Test yours:
http://speedtest.connections-etc.com/
In fact, we would be interested in your results.
Write us
with your "paid" service speed and test results speed.
Dialup Connections
Getting disconnected, or when connected you have a
poor connection speed? This may be caused by the modem attempting
to connect at maximum speed when your phone lines cannot handle that
speed. The result is a poor or terribly slow connection. Try
controlling the modem connection speed rather than allowing it to
(attempt to) connect at a maximum speed.
Click here for more
information. Auto-Dial
By default Norton will attempt to connect to the
Internet every four hours to check for updates. On a dialup connection,
that means LiveUpdate will bring up the dialer (see Symantec article
2001052115543206). Short of disabling auto updates (you do NOT want to do
that), there is nothing that can be done to change this. |
