>Colin,
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>I will double check to see if they have installed the EXE on the their local drive. I will have to check with them to see how their WAN is connected.
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>Would client/server be faster?
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>When you open a table does VFP load the entire database?
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>Thanks for your ideas!

Shane,

I'll answer your second question first. If you are dealing with a free table, then just the table and related FPT and CDX files open. If the table is in the DBC then the DBC opens as well because a lot of table info can be contained in the DBC (triggers, RI, default value, etc)

In regards to C/S, it depends. C/S, generally speaking is slower than native VFP access. Also, to really do this you would have to setup Client/Server(s) with a server on each LAN and replicating the data between LAN servers. HTH