My Downloads are taking forever!!! Please help

Many times users think the reason for the slowness is their computer, however were we need to look when you experience this type of issue, is normally your internet connection. They have slowness problems when streaming a video, browsing sites or uploading files.

I recommend browsing to the following website to perform a speed test: http://speedtest.net
follow the link and click the green button to perform the speed test make sure you click in the right place as they have some other tools to check your system diagnostics, keep in mind this is a web-based application so if you are prompted to download something you can go ahead and cancel that.

Speedtest.net is a great resource to check your internet connection, when you're having connectivity problems or experiencing slowness downloading, uploading or browsing the internet. Run a speed test to see what your download and upload.

ad speeds are accurate with your current internet connection it should be pretty close around 60+ or higher of what they are promising to provide. Other things like other users on the same network or background applications that are connecting to the internet and downloading or uploading data.

Some of the applications that you want to look out for are file sharing applications like:
File sharing:
DropBox.com , Box.com
Any torrent applications
for example:  Utorrent, Bittorent and others...
picture sharing applications
for example: Shutterfly, snapfish
Also any cloud backup applications can cause your internet to run extremely slow.
These applications some times run quietly in the background, shutting them off in the task manager or changing the applications settings can great improve your connectivity issues.

How to configure WordPress to post emails

ISSUE:

How to send an email to post to your wordpess blog, in other words how to post to your blog using email

WARNING this does not support SSL so Gmail.com account will not work in my examples I used an email account with Godaddy and also PowerDNN

Client was getting press releases and posting them to his wordpress blog, however that takes up a lot of time as he has to take the email create a word document and finally copy and paste it into the wordpress log.

Wouldn't it be nice to just have the emails just post them self's.
Wouldn't it be even nicer to just have the website update anything that you email to it.
This is not a perfect world but wordpress tries to accommodate, so I'm here to post how it's done.
There a lot of technical gorgon if you search on this topic on the web or Google and I just want to make it simple and easy for you to accomplish this task, don't worry I will not tell anyone that you are a Newbee

Here are some of the sites that provide a more detail explanation on how to do this in case you get stuck or want to spend endless hours drowning/reading
http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_to_your_blog_using_email


The Quick simple way is here:

1. go to your dashboard under settings click "writing"
2. look at the section: Post via e-mail 
3. Create a new email account using the name that are give under the Post via e-mail section:

Post via e-mail

To post to WordPress by e-mail you must set up a secret e-mail account with POP3 access. Any mail received at this address will be posted, so it’s a good idea to keep this address very secret. Here are three random strings you could use: crXwewUJaa, hqwdavQu1fp, OzeqdqMuLSp.

so in this example it would be something like crXwewUJaa@yourdomain.com

WARNING this does not support SSL so Gmail.com (ssl://pop.gmail.com didn't work this will only work if your .php code is modified to use SSL ) account will not work in my examples I used an email account with Godaddy and also PowerDNN

3. Add a  new user with that email address crXwewUJaa@yourdomain.com as an editor or administrator

4. Add another user with the email address you plan to send from

5. Send a message to crXwewUJaa@yourdomain.com 

6. Then you can go to http://yourdomain.com/wp-mail.php
and if your lucky you will see the subject line and email that you sent to it.

However most of us will get some errors as I did, the most annoying one is:

Slow down cowboy, no need to check for new mails so often!

This happens when you try to refresh the email page to quick and there is no new messages in your blog another way to check is by going to your ALL post page and seeing if there is anything new.

you might also get:

POP3 connect: Error [13] [Permission denied]

This is because 1 your using SSL, 2 your settings are not configured properly, 3 your email account is not authorized to send to the blog so the user sending the email is not in the user database

let me know if you have any issues with it and I will help