Paul,

I understand that. But people want to use the conection they already have,
and that it's internet.

Artur

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Schmidt" <paul@...>
To: <ib-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: [ib-support] best tool for remote slow connection


> On 22 Oct 2001, at 13:05, Artur Anjos wrote:
>
> > Paul:
> >
> > I agree with you when you say that "most database transmissions are
> > less then 1K in size, without a lot of repeating..."
> >
> > We really don't need the lack of compression there. We did not notice
> > that we are working in a slow connection also. But if you are building
> > a report, for example, and fetching a lot of data from the server on
> > a slow connection, compression will be nice. What I was saying that
> > will be nice if FB could check when or not to compress the data,
> > according to the length of data to be fetch. That' I'm shure that will
> > make a difference in Slow connections.
> >
> > I was speaking about encripting at the same time, because if the
> > driver was changed to use compression, it will be easy also to add
> > encription. I know that VPN software can do the job, but...
> >
> > Well, I was just dreaming...
> >
>
> I was just saying that it might make more sense to use a
> compressing and encrypting router, between sites, where it is
> possible to do both functions at the network level rather then the
> DB level.
>
> Paul
> Paul Schmidt
> Tricat Technologies
> paul@...
> www.tricattechnologies.com
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