> Yes, without question and it's not a reverse DNS lookup. Please,
> this is worth money to anyone who can help. My company is in a tight
> spot. Our staff has been working on it all day and have yet to
> resolve the problem.
>
> Again to break it down. On our laptops and locally, app runs
> perfectly. When using the app on the network or through an ip
> address, extremely slow transactions. Even IBExpert lags when using
> it. Yet when the db is copied onto the laptops or locally, the app
> works fine.
>
> I'm not saying this is a firebird issue per se but we have not
> totally ruled out that it is not the problem. At this point it may
> be the db or the .Net provider we are using. But then why would the
> same provider be working on the laptops?? We've changed servers,
> network cards, even changed ip addresses and used a different master
> pc. Again any help would be appreciative and glaly rewarded.
>

so now we know it's a .NET connected application but we still don't know
anything else.
it's sort of like screaming out - "we can't start our car!!" what's wrong?

Alan