Outlook is wasting bandwidth, make it better

[Guest]

Why is Outlook wasting my bandwidth. When I attended a Office 2003
seminar/lab the people at Microsoft said that this version of Outlook is
really fast, smart and so on when working offline and with different network
speeds. When I connect with my mobile phone and want to synchronise my
Outlook, it always receives and send lots of megabytes although very few
messages are new. Today I had 3 new messages with only text, about 50KB
maximum, and I haven't been using internet more than this posting from the
menu in Outlook and I have downloaded 11MB and sent 1MB so far.

It is synchronising the global address book right now I think, which is a
total waste. Instead of downloading the changes/additions it is always
downloading the whole global address book every time with 50.000 people and
lists in it. It is not so funny when I pay per MB and the GPRS mobile
connection is quite slow anyway.

When is this mobility smart bandwidth handling going to be real?

Best regards
Niklas E

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Why is Outlook wasting my bandwidth. When I attended a Office 2003
seminar/lab the people at Microsoft said that this version of Outlook
is really fast, smart and so on when working offline and with
different network speeds. When I connect with my mobile phone and
want to synchronise my Outlook, it always receives and send lots of
megabytes although very few messages are new. Today I had 3 new
messages with only text, about 50KB maximum, and I haven't been using
internet more than this posting from the menu in Outlook and I have
downloaded 11MB and sent 1MB so far.

It is synchronising the global address book right now I think, which
is a total waste. Instead of downloading the changes/additions it is
always downloading the whole global address book every time with
50.000 people and lists in it. It is not so funny when I pay per MB
and the GPRS mobile connection is quite slow anyway.

Change the settings in your send/receive groups so it only downloads
changes.
You can also set up different send/receive groups that do only what you
wish.

When is this mobility smart bandwidth handling going to be real?

The problem isn't with Outlook - it's your configuration. Note that
performance is always going to be poor on any form of dialup.