Generally speaking, mail.bnt.ca is a fairly fast server - It's fast and it's connected to a very fast fibre optic network that can carry your information to you quickly no matter where you are. You can see this blazing response when you first start to use the various services provided. Over time, though, you start to wonder if things are slowing down? Why?

There are most likely two simple reasons for this: The main one is that you might have accumulated a large number of emails in your webmail account folders. The other one is that you might have a large number of filter rules that are being executed on each email.

Fortunately, the webmail service has special features to allow you to resolve these problems easily.

If you are behind a firewall and you need to use a proxy server to get your updates, yum can appear to hang while trying to get the key for the package you are installing.