Hi Guido,

we had the same problems specially connect to our db wit mobile
phones. We try'd the same things as you descriped but without
success. The only things what changes the speed dramatically was the
uses of a applicationsserver. We use one of the ASTA technology group
http://www.astatech.com/index.html which is very stable and very
flexible.

Best regards
Gerhard

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, guido.klapperich@t... wrote:
> We use IBReplicator for replication over the internet and we have
> massive performance problems with that. For example we have a
> transferrate of 200 Bytes/sec over ISDN and 3KBytes/sec over DSL.
One of
> the network admins told me, that the problem is, that FB sends a
lot of
> very small packets over the wire, for example for replicating about
4MB
> nearly 31000 packets are sent with a average size of 80 Bytes. I
have
> seen in the firebird.conf is a parameter TcpRemoteBufferSize to
enlarge
> the packet size and I have set it to 16K, but it doesn't changed
> anything. The maximum packet size I get is 1514 Bytes. The I found
this
> article to enlarge the TCP packet size
> http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=157, but his doesn't
> worked for me as well. I'm no network specialist and I don't get
this
> all together, therefore here are my questions:
>
> Is it possible with the parameter TcpRemoteBufferSize to reduce the
> number of packets sent over the wire? For example, don't send 1000
> packets with a size of 80 Bytes, but send 1 packet with a size of
8000
> Byte.
>
> When I want to enlarge the TCP packet size, do I have to enlarge it
for
> the server and the client or only for one of them. Does anybody
know a
> good TCP packet size for a TcpRemoteBufferSize of 16K?
>
> I have read, that FB is not intended for use in Internet, because
the
> FB-protocol does so many roundtrips. Is this right, or exist some
> tricks, how to speed up FB over the internet?
>
> BTW, we have also tried ZeBeDee, but it doesn't helped anything. It
only
> compresses the the packets, but the number of packets are still the
> same.
>
> Regards
>
> Guido