Well, the application has to connect to Fb. No way out !
The DNS lookup can't bei the Problem, because I use static IP Adresses.
An what do you mean with "Latency of your links" ? The Internet
Connection was almost unused. I hardly did not see the traffic
Firebird created on my Diagram....

>
> 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
> >
> >
> > Hello.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Now what is the reason that Firebird is that slow over the Internet ?
> >
> > Thanks for your Help !
> > Matthias Feist
> >
> >
> > PS: I'm using the current ZEOS version to connect to Fireird.