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VFP DBC slow connection on wireless connection
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27/09/2005 20:21:21
Neil Mc Donald
Cencom Systems P/L
The Sun, Australia
 
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows XP
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01053431
Message ID:
01053714
Views:
18
Hi,
The quickest and best solution is to access the database via terminal services.

The wireless connection has about 100th of the bandwidth that the LAN has, i.e. 100 times slower.

Also you WILL run into the XP 10 share limit shortly i.e. you need a server with terminal server.


>Hello,
>
>Situaction is following:
>There is small office of 7 PC - all have Windows XP Professional OS.
>I have created application with VFP8SP1 which uses VFP DBC database. That database is located on one of PC. Other workstations accessing that DB via shared directory on that host PC.
>Now we bought notebook with wireless connection and we see that tables from database is opening much (at least twise) slower than on PC with LAN. I assuming that if we would use mobile GRPS connection (VPN) it would be event worse...
>
>How VFP is operating with DBC/Tables?
>
>Is it transfering all data via network?
>
>Will MySQL/MSSQL server will help (actually there will be big work to do that - around 30 tables inside DBC)?
Regards N Mc Donald
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