Do emails require more “bars” up than, say, internet connection? For example, I have 2 bars and internet is fine…but emails are a no-go. (Or, it could be other issues…trying to eliminate causes.)
Is this using a desktop PC? Laptop? Smartphone? Abacus? How are you checking your e-mail? Through your browser or with an e-mail application?
In any case, I don’t think the number of bars shown is going to be the cause of e-mail problems while web pages (http) are delivered to your browser with no problem.
E-mail is Internet. On the net, a packet is a packet is a packet. There are, however, other e-mail-like messaging systems on a phone that use non-Internet protocols, and those might require more or less signal strength.
As Chronos said, just a general FYI that the internet is not synonymous with the World Wide Web although many people make that mistake. If you avoid mixing up those terms, you will be ahead of the game. E-mail is part of the internet and one of the oldest parts of it. FTP, Usenet, and lots of other protocols are part of the web as well. Simple text e-mails are simple and only require a connection exactly as strong as the minimum for a brief time to get transmitted. It is all digital and it works or it doesn’t once it goes through the e-mail protocols and hits the wired routers to get reassembled as a message on the receiving side. You might be looking at a different issue though. Some web based e-mail may be finicky just because the e-mail program is inefficient and demands a lot of overhead. You could try a different e-mail client if it is for common use.
As Chronos said, just a general FYI that the internet is not synonymous with the World Wide Web although many people make that mistake. If you avoid mixing up those terms, you will be ahead of the game. E-mail is part of the internet and one of the oldest parts of it. FTP, Usenet, and lots of other protocols are part of the web as well. Simple text e-mails are simple and only require a connection exactly as strong as the minimum for a brief time to get transmitted. It is all digital and it works or it doesn’t once it goes through the e-mail protocols and hits the wired routers to get reassembled as a message on the receiving side. You might be looking at a different issue though. Some web based e-mail may be finicky just because the e-mail program is inefficient and demands a lot of overhead. You could try a different e-mail client if it is for common use.
In a pinch, you can get and send most e-mail from your browser by using www.mail2web.com. It is a handy tool to know about.
You might want to look at that sentence again.
And FTP and Usenet probably aren’t very familiar to most folks any more. A better example might be that online games like World of Warcraft are part of the Internet, but not part of the Web.