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Comment on NewRiders Server of Old by Lonnie

Lonnie — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:56:06 +0000

I remember that particular piece of equipment =)

Comment on Speed Test Results from Inside Donet by david

david — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:58:02 +0000

Excellent question, Gene!

The first point to make is that I’m executing the speed test from my office inside the Donet network. I’m physically connected to that network, so my speeds are bound to be faster — MUCH faster.

Based on your speed test results, it looks like you’re a 6 megabit/sec DSL customer. Your throughput, both up and down, are pretty close to what we would expect for 6 mbps ADSL. Remember, ADSL is asymmetric digital subscriber line, which means that your download and upload speeds are going to be different. The network is designed to favor download speeds since most of our customers are downloading data FROM the Internet rather than uploading data TOWARDS the Internet.

Thanks for checking out our blog, and for your question. I hope I answered it for you.

Comment on Speed Test Results from Inside Donet by Gene Howell

Gene Howell — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:50:34 +0000

So why do my tests come in at 5064 kbps DOWN and 640 kbps UP?

Comment on Donet Phone Lines Down by david

david — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:34:49 +0000

Phone service was restored at approximately 11:20am this morning.

Comment on Password Protect Your Website (and more!) by cogizz

cogizz — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:33:05 +0000

Thank you this is an excellent post.

Comment on Manage Your Donet Spam Filter by Donet Blog » Blog Archive » Boosting Email Signal to Noise

Donet Blog » Blog Archive » Boosting Email Signal to Noise — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:03:21 +0000

[...] blogged about this earlier in his post Manage Your Donet Spam Filter. His post was an excellent walk-through of our filtering tool in general, and I won’t re-hash [...]

Comment on Email “Privacy” at WiFi Hotspots? by James

James — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:20:59 +0000

If you are a Donet customer and find yourself in a similar situation, you can always try and use encrypted SMTP/POP3/IMAP conversations. We support them for a large majority of our email services to protect data in transmission.

Configuring your mail client to use encryption is often as simple as checking the box next to “Use Secure Socket Layer (SSL)”.

Comment on Email “Privacy” at WiFi Hotspots? by Eric Westfall

Eric Westfall — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:25:34 +0000

Very interesting indeed, I would be curious to know if they also prevent IPSEC and L2TP pass-through, thus preventing VPN connections. This also reminds me of a post I read on Slashdot a while back that discussed the prevalence of ISP outbound email filtering…. http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/31/2130251

Comment on Configure Your Favorite Mail Client by alek

alek — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:35:01 +0000

Obviously we can not anticipate every possible mail client, but the options and proper configuration will always be relatively similar. If you run in to a situation where the client does not provide you the option to change the port number, as I have seen in releases of the Evolution mail client, just use the following as your outgoing server; it accomplishes the same thing:

smtp.donet.com:587

Comment on Using Your iPhone with Donet Email by Donet Blog » Blog Archive » Configure Your Favorite Mail Client

Donet Blog » Blog Archive » Configure Your Favorite Mail Client — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:28:46 +0000

[...] address is easy, regardless of the mail program you are comfortable using. The instructions for setting up an iPhone detail what are essentially the same settings for any email client. Lets start here with the [...]