Mike,

How much memory on the server is avaialable? Are you running on the server any applications (like SQL Server) that could consume most of the memory?

>My laptop p4 1.84G and 1G RAM seems to perform the same operation over an ethernet network faster than the server.
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>The server is a windows 2003 system p4 3.2G, 2G RAM system.
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>This is the task being performed:
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>I am moving data from one system to another via ODBC. (Both systems are not directly compatable.)
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>Both data sources reside on the server. i.e. When I run the software from the server, there is no network traffic. Just hard disk reads and writes.
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>Yet my laptop out performs the server often by a 2 to 1 margin or better.
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>Is there some issues with FOX and memory? i.e. are there settings that can increase the performance. I know it is not a network thing as the server is running this weekend doing a task that took les than an hour on my laptop, and it is still running. There are no other users on the network but myself, and I am only monitoring it.
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