At 01:28 PM 3/03/2003 +0000, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>We've built an application for
>Internet: Server is an FTP-Server. The communication flows over the
>Internet.

How does that work for a database server?

What communication flows over the Internet?

What kind of client software is used?

>We forced, that f.e. opening a query occurs about 40 Kb
>network traffic: 1 record with one field in the table! With any type
>(other than LAN) of connections it osts a lot of time. Why is the
>traffic so high? Why is not only sended the
>connection and the SQL statement?
>
>Please, help!!!!

For anyone to help, you have to provide enough description of what you are
trying to do, to make us understand what might be a cause of problems.

heLen