--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Alan McDonald" <alan@...>
wrote:

>
> > This application is a Delphi app accessing the Firebird database
> > directly over the Internet via the BDE.
>
> BDE!!! over the Internet!!!
> I'm sorry but you are never going to get good (read acceptable)

performancce

> over the internet. The bandwidth is just not up to it. Even

tunnelling under

> compression is not going to work, since the transport protocol of FB

is

> small/numerous packets... i's a non-starter I'm afraid.
> Alan

Interesting! Why should this combination be a problem? And how do
people implement decent performing client/server apps over the Internet?

Any info gratefully received.

Trevor