Jason,

Thanks for your suggestions. I'll try converting to TIBOTables (or
TIBOQueries if I can get a little more time to work on it). I needed some
reassurance that the BDE was the problem before starting the conversion.

Art Metz
AMetz@...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Wharton [mailto:jwharton@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 9:20 PM
> To: ib-support@egroups.com
> Subject: Re: [ib-support] excessive network traffic [LONG]
>

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>
> > >
> > > a. This traffic seems excessive. Do you agree?
>
> If I knew what to compare it to I could answer that.
> Considering what you
> are asking for it does seem excessive though.
>
> > > b. Where does it originate: bde? gds32? tcp/ip?
>
> Most likely the BDE.
>
> > > c. Would I get less traffic if I switched to IBObjects?
>
> You could take more control so the answer is yes but probably
> not without a
> little bit of work.
>
> > > d. How can I reduce it?
>
> Try the BDE to IBO quick conversion and see what happens.
> Shouldn't take too
> long to give it a shot since IBO has the TDataset based
> components which emulate the BDE ones.
>
> HTH,
> Jason Wharton
> CPS - Mesa AZ
> http://www.ibobjects.com
>