Either of the choices you suggest should work. 256K should be sufficient speed for a well designed client/server application. Certainly the configuration could affect the speed. The time to open the spreadsheet seems slow, but not completely out of line. Regardless, there's no way you'll get good performance accessing FoxPro data natively over a 256K line.

>I have a VFP application running on Novell 4.1 netware. Recently, my user tried to run it across a 256K leased line to an office 400m away and find the speed unacceptable.
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>I am considering whether to upgrade it to Client Server OR run it separate and do a batch update each day.
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>From your past experience, which is more feasible?
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>Also, can the slowness cause by wrong configuration? I tried opening an Excel file (1.79M) in the server and it takes 2.5 minutes as opposed to 2s on local.
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>Thank you.