{"id":287,"date":"2013-12-20T16:30:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T16:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/nexus\/?p=287"},"modified":"2013-12-20T16:30:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T16:30:27","slug":"outlook2013slowconnections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/nexus\/2013\/12\/20\/outlook2013slowconnections\/","title":{"rendered":"Outlook 2013 and ‘slow connections’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’ve been playing with Microsoft’s new OFFCAT tool, which analyses your Office configuration and recommends improvements or corrections.<\/p>\n

The results were mostly what you’d expect – there were a couple of newly-released Office-specific patches I was missing which don’t appear on WSUS, for example.<\/p>\n

But I was surprised to see that my Outlook says I have a ‘slow network connection’. Initially I assumed this was based on some server-connectivity test but, no, it’s not. At least not according to Microsoft’s documentation:<\/p>\n

Outlook is configured to determine a user’s connection speed by checking the network adapter speed on the user’s computer, as supplied by the operating system<\/span>. If the reported network adapter speed is 128 KB or lower, the connection is defined as a slow connection.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is odd. My Operating System reports that I have a 100Mbps connection. Hmmm. More investigation needed, methinks. Searching online suggests that I’m not the only one trying to get more information on how this assessment is made.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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