i've installed the FMP sever 5.0 on the windows nt4 sp6. It connected with the internet directly without any firewall by a cable modem. I've another user in japan (256K leased line) and singapore (128K leased line). But both of them still feel the performance still poor. And I found my server upload speed no more than 150kbps.

Is there any method to improve upload speed?

P.S.: when i upload file to japan it have 200-400kbps.

I believe it is about the DB design more, than speed.

We are working on remote access to main server and 64k seem to be quite OK and sometimes 128k works like local connection.

I've hardwired 2 PCs through serial cable (115k) and it is flying! Its faster, than overloaded (20 users) 10Mb Ethernet.

What data are you transferring?

What traceroute says about the real delays and number of hops?

How many data pass thru when you open the file?

As one of my file (main file) is linked with another 20 files and I'll open them at once. I use DUMeter to check the data pass thru about 1MBytes from Server to client PC. From the DUMeter, it shows some time server pass 1-2KB, sometime 11-18KB no matter our network is busy or not. Also, each database size at least 1MB.

Any idea why the server throughput not close to a constant value?

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Originally posted by Anatoli:

I believe it is about the DB design more, than speed.

We are working on remote access to main server and 64k seem to be quite OK and sometimes 128k works like local connection.

I've hardwired 2 PCs through serial cable (115k) and it is flying! Its faster, than overloaded (20 users) 10Mb Ethernet.

What data are you transferring?

What traceroute says about the real delays and number of hops?

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Redesign the thing.

Transfer only data or simple layouts not pretty layouts with graphic.

Open only what you need through relations.

[ April 23, 2001: Message edited by: Anatoli ]