Power cycling the cable modem speeds up my email. Why?
For several days my email coming into my inbox was very slow, about several minutes to bring in about ten messages without any large attachments. Also opening up the email messages was very slow with the dreaded beach ball spinning. Then when I power cycled my Motorola Surfboard SB5100 modem to try to alleviate slow line speeds, the email problem went away! email came in fast and opened up quickly. Why would getting a new dynamic IP address help dramatically with email retrieval? (There was no effect on speeding up the line connection.)
Thanks.
Raymon
Update on my question:
1. Power cycling the modem to speed up email worked only once and I've not been able to reproduce it. Instead what seems to work well (so far) is "Compacting Folders". I'm using the Netscape 7.2 email client. When I called Netscape tech support, they agreed on Compacting Folders but cautioned that this may corrupt some email files. So far I've not seen any such corruption, but then I've not systematically checked all the email I have in folders.
2. Since my initial posting about two weeks ago, I've discovered that the "low connection speeds in the afternoon and lasting until about midnight" was apparently entirely due to my not clearing my Netscape browser cache often enough. Now when ever I see a drop in connection speed I simply trash the browser cache and the line speed immediately clocks back up to normal! And so, no sign of nodal oversubscription what so ever.
~Raymon
G4 933 MHz "2002 Quicksilver", 1.54 GB RAM, two 160 GB HD, Mac OS X (10.4.8) 120 GB FireLite FW drive, iLife'06, LaCie d2 burner, 80 GB iPod
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