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Why does Pulse use a Proxy?
First off, why *do* we use a proxy, anyway? Well, the short answer is, we’re outsiders. If we had access to lower-level Blackberry APIs, we could probably get away without using a proxy. Or, if we had access to the Blackberry Internet Service’s backroom servers, we could […]

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Three different Pulse Customers have independently reported download speeds in excess of 126 KPS using 8700g’s on T-Mobile’s EDGE network. These reports were obtained using various reputable internet bandwidth measuring sites.
Neither Garret Kelly (8700g/T-Mobile EDGE), Garret Cole (8703e/Verizon EVD0), or myself (8700g/T-Mobile EDGE) have come anywhere close to this, nor has Alex King.
I am […]

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Pulse makes a very nice VPN client, which I knew, but haven’t previously mentioned or seriously tried working with yet.
I was doing some work at home today, and my heart sank when I realized I was going to have to transfer several files to our corporate gateway and then scp them to one of our […]

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We’ve been running some diagnostic tests over here at the Brain Murmurs headquarters and calculating the approximate bandwidth users should expect for the current release of Pulse. Using an 8700 you should probably see a regular download speed of 65k.
Just as an FYI - the Interet read/write numbers on your Pulse output window […]

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Things to look for in the next two months:
Proxy Server Scaling done
Proxy Server General Release done
Proxy Server Package for OS X done
Pulse USB done
USB Driver for OS X
Windows Bluetooth Performance enhancements
Proxy Server Software Compression
Linux USB Driver

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At this point we are considering Pulse to be stable and are focusing all of our attention on the proxy server.  If you are a Pulse customer you should have received registration in your email.   PLEASE feel free to use it and please hammer on the proxy server, even, or especially if you get bumped […]

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Everyone that has purchased Pulse so far will receive a download link and a registration code today. We are currently migrating the proxy server to our partner’s website and are experiencing minor issues with the move.
Our current plan is to perform a two-week beta test of the new proxy site, during which time all […]

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I’ve been doing a lot of benchmarking to try and characterize our system performance and thought I’d post these numbers to give people an idea of what to expect from Pulse on their handhelds.
Once we had the system up and running, we started measuring performance by logging on with Pulse and using the […]

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Hi everyone,
There have been a lot of questions about Pulse. I’m going to try and answer them as quickly as possible, but it may take a little while to get to all of them.
Pulse is still on track for release on November 15th. Our company is furiously busy on […]

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We just finished testing with an associates 7100t on T-Mobile and it worked perfectly.

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