Austin,

Have you tried to do some tests to see if it goes faster with
something like zebedee? It does compact the packets (zlib, IIRC) so it
should accelerate things a bit.

as quoted on the site:
Zebedee is a simple program to establish an encrypted, compressed
"tunnel" for TCP/IP or UDP data transfer between two systems. This
allows traffic such as telnet, ftp and X to be protected from snooping
as well as potentially gaining performance over low-bandwidth networks
from compression.

http://www.winton.org.uk/zebedee/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/zebedee/
http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&s=1105496344:633417&page=ibp_zebedee


HTH
Andrew

>
>
> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Ann W. Harrison"
> <aharrison@i...> wrote:
> > ggroper wrote:
> > >
> > > Currently, (Version FB 1.52 with Delphi 7/ or 2005 and dbExpress) it
> > > takes about a second per row to return a result over a remote
> > > communication Internet connectection with Blob fields and sub second
> > > without Blob fields.
> > >
> > Have you made the same test using ISQL? I'm just curious to know

what

> > the interface is contributing to the problem.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> > Ann