Re: VPN Questions Again

Laura,

My observations are somewhat tentative and vague, since I'm still working 
through problems with this myself.  However, I hope they will help a little bit.

As for the sluggishness:  Are you using a broad band connection?  I believe VPN 
defaults to 56K.  There is an options dialog, or something similar, where you 
can set it for a speed more appropriate to what you are running.  This should 
help the responsiveness.

In the Jaws window, press F1 to get to the help tree view.  There you will find 
a remote access help topic.  Included in that topic are keystrokes for things 
like switching back to your local PC windows.

Hope this helps a little.

Steve
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lora 
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:05 PM
  Subject: VPN Questions Again


  Hi,

  Well, I got my VPN connection to run, and after logging on, JAWS even started 
up.

  I noticed three weird things, though.

  1.  JAWS was very, very slow.  In fact, even reading Outlook Email was a 
problem.  JAWS started out very sluggish, and had trouble finishing lines, and 
otherwise just couldn't read the body of an Email.  It responded very slowly to 
other commands I issued, too.  Any advice?  I didn't even try the mainframe 
connection.

  2.  Although I have a Focus 44 on this machine, I didn't get Braille.

  3.  I don't know how to get from the Remote Desktop window to windows on my 
desktop that aren't associated with the VPN connection.  Well, I could manage 
it, but by bringing up Task Manager ... is there a nifty hot key to switch out 
of the Remote 
  Desktop session?

  Things to Know

  I'm running JAWS 9 beta on this machine.  At work, I have JAWS 7.1.  Would 
this cause the problem?

  My computer at work also has a Braille display.  Would that cause the 
slowness?

  Thanks for any help you can offer.

  Lora

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