Hi all,

We are on the verge of starting the evaluation of a typical 2-tiered application to be run on a transatlantic intranet of an int'l corporation. Few users (below 20) but definitely spread over the company network.

This application - written in the 90s - runs on MS SQL server or Sybase ASA servers via ODBC. The system has some sort of lousy start-up phase (with hosts of initial data downloads for buffering). But once started, the performance of this app on LAN has always been more than decent with subsecond response times for most interactions.

During the period 1998-2000, the application was run on national WANs of that time by a couple of customers with workable but poor and un-impressive performance ratings. At that time the constrain was mostly on bandwidth.

Now we're talking a 2006 corporate intranet. Everything should be fine... From what I have read, I understand that bandwidth will not be an issue. But what about latency. Are those company networks fast enough to cope with our VFP+odbc talky apps.

In other words, what kind of ping speed level is adequate for those VFP-odbc "c-s/" applications to run adequately to-day?

Daniel