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VFP DBC slow connection on wireless connection
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04/10/2005 07:44:01
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:
01055785
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Hi,
It is very slow, but it works, EVDO is much better, if available.

>How fast terminal services are when you are using mobile GRPS connection?
>I don't think that this is right solution :-/
>
>>Yes, TS only sends Deltas of the screen to the remote, very fast.
>>
>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Do you mean, that user should connect to server via terminal services and run program on the server?
>>>
>>>
>>>>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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