You may get better network performance by using SEEK/SCAN to return 4 records.

>One query is for example:
>

>SELECT	ti.tiKey, ;
>	ti.tiNumber, ;
>	ti.tiTickNr, ;
>	ti.tittKey, ;
>	ti.tiValue, ;
>	ti.tiBBOPerc, ;
>	ac.acDate, ;
>	ac.acTime, ;
>	ac.acCreateT, ;
>	ac.acMovieNam, ;
>	ac.acmoKey, ;
>	ac.acPrice, ;
>	ac.acTyKey, ;
>	ac.acRaKey, ;
>	ac.acThKey, ;
>	ac.actekey ;
>	FROM Tickets ti ;
>	LEFT OUTER JOIN ActShows ac ;
>		ON ti.tiackey = ac.acKey ;
>	WHERE ti.tiTrkey = tnBatchNr ;
>	INTO CURSOR cuPrint1 NOFILTER
>

>
>and that could return for example 4 records (if you bought four tickets)
>
>>Are you using SELECT statements for your queries?
>>
>>
>>
>>>In very simplified form:
>>>
>>>USE actshows
>>>=SEEK(lnCurrentShow,"ActShows","acKey")
>>>Select * from ActShows WHERE acDate = DATE() INTO CURSOR cuTodayShows
>>>
>>>etc.
>>>
>>>When updating records, I also do record locks where necessary.
>>>
>>>Usually updating like this:
>>>Insert into Tickets (tiKey, tinumber etc) VALUE (1,1, etc)
>>>FLUSH IN Tickets
>>>
>>>=RLOCK("ActShows")
>>>REPLACE acSold WITH acSold + 1 IN ActShows
>>>UNLOCK RECORD xx IN ActShows
>>>FLUSH IN ActShows
>>>
>>>There are lots of these relatively small things going on, but monitoring the network shows that the queries take most of the bandwidth, the updating much less.
>>>
>>>There are lots of smaller queries where I want to see the status of the shows, sold out shows etc, but the indexes are all there. Perhaps too many indexes?
>>>
>>>>What method are you employing to read/write to/from the vfp tables?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>>We installed a ticket software on a remote location that has a 10 Mbps link to the main server. The software uses VFP tables and does some usual queries and record locks, but nothing to extravagant.
>>>>>
>>>>>However, we see that the network utilization often spikes up to 4 Mbps when doing a ticket sale for example.
>>>>>
>>>>>That causes the system to slow down dramatically when 2 or more computers are processing simultaneously.
>>>>>
>>>>>Before I am going to try to change the software to use less bandwidth, does a usage of 4Mbps sound particularly huge for VFP tables, or is this in the "normal" range of bandwidth usage? Because if I cannot hope to decrease the bandwidth to let's say only 1 Mbps maximum, I would have to consider rewriting the software to a client / server application.
>>>>>
>>>>>So I would like to know if somebody can give me some figures about what to expect. I am of course aware of the fact that it largely depends on the queries and size of data that gets transferred, but nevertheleless I do need a kind of a starting point to come to a final conclusion.