> A Interbase problem in slow connections can be that the
> information travel uncompressed and unencrypted. I have
> sniffed the network traffic and it's horrible and ascii.
> Is there any application, protocol or anything to get
> that the information travel compressed and encrypted?

Check out the specs for the router/connection hardware. Any device
for slow connection routing should provide some sort of hardware based
compression. (Even most cheap modems do.)

Geoff Worboys
Telesis Computing