Check your anti-virus software. Make sure that the workstations are not scanning network drivers and if you have real-time scanning turned on perhaps excluded your VFP app folder.

>I have a client with a large network 25+ workstations, running a vertical market application.
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>They are having speed issues with their network - not just my application, but general speed.
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>Their network specialist have advised;
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>"We have installed WireShark on a workstation and on the server to try and find the cause of the problem.  It was noted that there are a lot of ‘Fragmented Packets’ going between the workstation and the server.
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>We isolated the source of the ‘Fragmented Packets’ by excluding all networked devices and creating a restricted network consisting of only the broadband router, the server and the workstation connected via a Gigabyte switch.  Initially there was no ‘Fragmented Packets’, however, as soon as <VFP application> was run the ‘Fragmented Packets’ started again.
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>It seems clear to us that there is a problem with the way  <VFP application>  is communicating with the network and therefore we need to work together to try and resolve the problem."
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>I am not a network specialist, does anyone know how VFP woudl cause fragmented packages and why this would be an issue?
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>Is there anything I could do to resolve/change this?
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>Gary.