Push email - schedule settings?

[Guest Thetechnogeek]

OK, so I have set up push email on my SP5 using the free mail2web services, but am wondering about a couple of things:

1. The schedule settings in activesync- how do these affect the "push" / GPRS frequency? Or if the push setting is on, do the schedule settings have no effect?

2. Heartbeat traffic. Is this related to (1)? Currently it's looking like I'll have ~500k per day, which adds up to quite a lot per month! Is there any way to reduce this? I'm on UK voda.

Sorry for slightly newb questions, appreciate any help

[Guest impy78]

1. The schedule settings in activesync- how do these affect the "push" / GPRS frequency? Or if the push setting is on, do the schedule settings have no effect?

You need to set the schedule settings to "as Mail arrives", or it won't do the pushing the mail through thingy.

[Guest Confucious]

Orange have made the heartbeat longer so it uses less data. T-Mobile, on the other hand have just slashed data prices so it doesn't matter! :)

It is not user adjustable and O have made a big thing about the fact that their system uses less data.

The heartbeat should use about 4 - 9 Mb / month I believe so 500kb/day seems a bit excesive.

[Guest Thetechnogeek]

Orange have made the heartbeat longer so it uses less data. T-Mobile, on the other hand have just slashed data prices so it doesn't matter! :)

It is not user adjustable and O have made a big thing about the fact that their system uses less data.

The heartbeat should use about 4 - 9 Mb / month I believe so 500kb/day seems a bit excesive.

Hmmm, so are there any settings on the phone which I should look at which could be increasing this data usage?

Thanks

[Guest chucky.egg]

It's the usual stuff for data usage: What you download, and how often you do it

Check the schedule, and options in ActiveSync, and the folders in Messaging

As for heartbeat data, I can't find the calculation right now, but I seem to recall it being around 30Mb/month. !! WRONG

My Schedule settings:

ActiveSync (on device), Menu, Schedule

Peak times: As items arrive

Off-peak times: Manually

Peak times: M,Tu,W,Th,F 07:00 to 19:00

My Options settings:

ActiveSync (on device), Menu, Options

- Email

Highlight Email, Settings

Include previous: 2 weeks

Limit email size to: All

Include file attachments:

- Calendar

Highlight Calendar, Settings

Synchronise only the past: 2 weeks (default)

My folders:

Messaging, (Outlook Account), Menu, Tools, Manage folders...

I sync my Inbox and about 5 sub-folders, and the Sent Items folder

Edited July 5, 2006 by chucky.egg

[Guest chucky.egg]

Just found this with the calculation on the heartbeat data:

Each heartbeat requires a transmission of 370bytes, if you assume a heartbeat timeout of 15 minutes x 4 per hour x 24 hours x 30 days, the data overhead is about 1.06MB.

PocketNow Post

PocketNow thread

If you have Direct Push on a 12hr schedule you reduce that by half, but that assumes that no changes are being made (no new emails, calendar entries, tasks etc)

[Guest Thetechnogeek]

The plot thickens- I have just noticed a "Hotmail" entry in my messaging menu, which has appeared recently and contains my hotmail messages. I have not set this up myself (but have used messenger and also the hotmail entry in the web browser).

So, anyone know (a) how this has got here (:) whether these messages "replicate" automatically (I'm wondering whether this is where my bandwidth use has come from?) and © how to get rid of it?

Thanks again!

[Guest Confucious]

hotmail you have to send and receive manually (don't forget to do a send once you've 'sent' a message!)

I believe when you log on to MSN it does a send and receive so that's what pronanly created your account. I'm not sure if there is any way of stopping this and that could account for your extra data.

I'm just so glad I have unlimited data and don't have to worryu about these things.... :)

[Guest flodis79]

OK, so I have set up push email on my SP5 using the free mail2web services, but am wondering about a couple of things:

1. The schedule settings in activesync- how do these affect the "push" / GPRS frequency? Or if the push setting is on, do the schedule settings have no effect?

2. Heartbeat traffic. Is this related to (1)? Currently it's looking like I'll have ~500k per day, which adds up to quite a lot per month! Is there any way to reduce this? I'm on UK voda.

Sorry for slightly newb questions, appreciate any help

mail2web uses excessively much data - more than their competitors. I'm on a 200 mb/month

data plan so I don't even bother about complaining about this - but I know it's very bad. As

long as mail2web offers a free version of their exchange server, the high data use is a payoff

I'm willing to take..