Date:

03 Jan 2000

Time:

15:55:05

Remote User:

Comments

I tried Copy & Convert using ActiveSync 3.0 on an HP Jornada 680 and Gateway 233Mhz notebook. The Access 2000 database table has 6000 records with 60 fields/record. It is 3.1MB. In 11 hours using a serial 115KB connection it becomes a 4.1MB Pocket Access table. I tried the same C & C using a Socket LP 10MBit PC Card. It took 11 hours cumulative and required two restarts.

There seems to take several orders of magnitute excess time. Just copiing files of this size should take less than an hour using a 115KB serial connection and under a minute or two using a 10MBit ethernet connection.

Date:

09 Jan 2000

Time:

07:04:16

Remote User:

Comments

You guys are doing nice work, but you are "barking up the wrong tree". The way to do all this is save every thing that has any size to a large compact flash. then remove the flash and put in your reader or portable. It then operates at near-RAM speed. I load a 65 megabyte movie file into my E-105's flash card in a minute or two. With excel files--don't convert just save on card. the excel clone reads it directly. I find very few things don't work well this way and you avoid all the problems that are created with cabling and docks et cetera. My suggestion forget cables and just deal with the 1 inch square compact flash. (place most stuff in "my documents" master file on CF)

Date:

15 Feb 2000

Time:

07:30:13

Remote User:

Comments

Dear Chris,

I use the serial cable for the sync. Now there is a serial to USB cable available at HK. Do you think it will work to connect the sync port to the desktop USB so the transmittion speed will improve? The cost of the cable is only 1/5 of a ethernet CF and with no set up required.

Let me know the result if you can manage to give it a try.

Thanks.

Barnny from Hong Kong

Date:

08 Aug 2000

Time:

02:58:40

Remote User:

Comments

USB performance from HP Jornada 548 is disappointing. The best speeds I managed are:

single file download (explorer cut/paste): 21KBytes/s single file upload (explorer cut/paste): 14KBytes/s activesync backup: 6Kbytes/s

This, from an interface that can manager 100s of Kbytes/second. HP have no answers.

Date:

23 Aug 2000

Time:

22:28:22

Remote User:

Comments

I ran your test with an Hitachi ePlate using a 4.025 meg file and both wired and wireless connections. The wired connection was a 3-Com CF card hooked to a switch, and that one took 0:33. The wireless was an Aironet 340 PC Card connected to a 342 Access Point on the same switch. That one took 0:47 to complete. While the same card gets an 11 meg connection in my laptop it only gets a 1 meg connection when in the ePlate, which must be a driver limitation since we are talking about the wireless portion of the connection rather than the internal portion. Haven't found an explanation.

Date:

04 Jul 2001

Time:

09:27:27

Remote User:

Comments

I have Jornado 545 It's working under the windows ce but I want to palm os program on my jornado.Because Some List Programs Working With Palm os program.That's why I need Changed Program Windwos ce , Palm os Program.How You can help me.? Grettings . Gurkan Ayisigi

Date:

15 Aug 2001

Time:

02:19:41

Remote User:

Comments

anybody out there able to use serial comm to peripheal devices while running a program under a DOS emulator on a jornada 720

Date:

10 Sep 2001

Time:

17:56:22

Remote User:

Comments

I noticed you are missing the Compaq iPAQ 3600 series in your tests. I do mostly contract work, so most of files are relatively small.

I timed the transfer of 4 files - 1 excel and two word docs to my iPAQ via USB --- total size of the transfer - 597kb. Notes on the project, who to contact, etc; the excel files were expense reports and timesheets. The transfer, including conversion, took 42 seconds....... I don't know if that's good or not -- but it's fast enough for me!

Date:

25 Nov 2001

Time:

18:29:34

Remote User:

Comments

Chris, I am searching for a comm port redirector that will allow me to use a network modem from a WinCE Device with a Proxim Notwork card. Any ideas where I should look. Thanks. Mike Richard [email protected]

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