On 2011-01-19 17:38 , Mike Dano wrote:
>
> We have an employee in a remote location that is trying to connect to
a very
> basic (light weight 300k) database over a (faster than dialup) satellite
> connection. They can browse web pages with no problems but it's
practically
> unusable for them to connect to FileMaker server. What's the deal? The
> database is less than 300K, how could it be so slow?
>

i believe the essence of this problem is latency -- each transaction
over a satellite connection has a significant lag; viewing a web page
may take only a few large transactions, but working with FMS may require
many small transactions


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