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13/11/2009 11:48:44
Dragan Nedeljkovich
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2000 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Application:
Desktop
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01434216
Message ID:
01434635
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49
>>Yep, sure is, but I have had wireless connections that wouldn't work , even with TS. A basic scan found heaps of spectrum interference.
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>But then nothing would work on such networks, right? And TS has a timeout. If you get disconnected, it waits (20 min or thereabouts is the last default I remember) and doesn't close your app before it times out in case you reconnect.
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>OTOH, you're right, I don't see why we'd have to write workarounds for hardware problems. I've seen even wired networks which were unreliable - welding, X-ray machines and few other sources operating in the vicinity of network cables can really ruin your connection. Or fry the NICs, as it happened sometimes.

That is why client server is so important in marginal connectivity situations.

You won't corrupt a SQL Server database because you had a bad network connection.
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