Since latency is a problem with Inet connections,
you might find useful using a compression tunneling
software as Zebedee... Thus, compressing traffic
network performance is more acceptable.

The wire protocol is kind of profilic and such tunneling
helps a lot making internet access to FB faster.

Besides performance, there's no difference for the
engine a IP address of a server on your network
and one on internet. So create a connection string
like x.y.z.w:mydb (x, y, z e w substitute by the parts
of fb server's IP address)

If his server have the 10.1.45.2 (just kicking one
address at no criteria) the connection string will
be something like:

10.1.45.2:mydb


(I'm supposing you defined a mydb alias on the
file aliases.conf just to simplify things. Do not put
the path to your on a open internet connection,
because of obvious security reasons).

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 07:51:25 -0000, bill_zwirs wrote:

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>Delphi5 application
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>I have a customer who has opened another office in another suburb
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>internet from the new site.
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>Is this possible and (if so) where do I find information on how to
>set this up?. The application currently works fine at his old site
>on a small local network consisting of a server and five
>workstations. I'm not a networking/coms person so please reply in
>simple english.
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>thanks in advance
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>Bill
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