1. Latency of your links
2. DNS lookups if you're not using persistent connections/tunneling.

It's never a good idea to seperate a Firebird server from it's clients with
anything less than a cat5 ethernet cable...especially not if you expect
real-time performance.
You're far better off using an application server right near your DB server,
and the clients just pump screens back and forth.

N.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Matze
> Sent: Wednesday, 9 August 2006 2:10 PM
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [firebird-support] Problem with Firebird over Internet
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> Hello.
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> I have an application which connects to a Firebird Server
> over LAN. This is
> very fast and everything works.
> Now I tried to connect this application to my Firebird Server over the
> Internet. Now this is very slow an the application freezes often when
> refreshing Data or executing a Query.
> In my connection statisitk I can see, that my
> Internetconnection is not used
> that much. So this is not the bottleneck.
> I also tried ZeBeDee but this doen't impove the speed a lot.
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> Now what is the reason that Firebird is that slow over the Internet ?
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> Thanks for your Help !
> Matthias Feist
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> PS: I'm using the current ZEOS version to connect to Fireird.
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