Hi -

We have some customers using our FPW 2.6 application on a WAN. On one of their
site that is connected thru a broadband internet - but a satellite dish, they
exhibit the following behaviour.


From a list box they have to select a client name, On a LAN when they type in
the first couple of alphabets the cursor will immediately move to that name.
But this site that is connected thru a satellite dish, when they type in say
'WILSON', the cursor would first go to the clients starting with 'W' and then
will go the clients staring with 'I' and then to client's whose name start with
L. It takes them an enormous amount of time to scroll down to the right client.

I assume it is because the dish is sending data in 'burst' or some slow form.
Is there anyway to manage this behavior at the programming level.

I appreciate all your help and thanks in advance.

Shah

satelite sucks...

What happens is satelite is fast for large files (aka: music) but for everything
else -- there is AT LEAST a 1 second "delay" in response while your request goes
up to the satelite, back to earth.. now it's fast again, then Up to the
satelite, and back down to you.

I would suggest that if you're forced to do the satelite thing, you write some
sort of "sync" app, and allow them to run "standalone" and then each day (or 2x
a day) "sync up" -- downloading lots of data (in one file) with satelite is
usually blazingly fast...

On 23 Dec 2004 20:56:02 GMT, shahjagat (AT) aol (DOT) com (ShahJagat) wrote:


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On 23 Dec 2004 20:56:02 GMT in comp.databases.xbase.fox,
shahjagat (AT) aol (DOT) com (ShahJagat) wrote:

files with WAN i/o. if you start running a program that does
much file 1/0, it will really slow down to a crawl. you'd be
better off dedicating a machine onsite for remote control access.

we've had good luck with PC Anywhere, once we properly configured
out firewall for port forwarding. if you set it up with
encryption and restrict use to a particular IP address, it can
very secure, making the additional $10 per month we pay for fixed
IP addresses at our remote locations worth the extra charge. it
only sends screen info and key/mouse actions back and forth,
which make it run faster.


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