Subject Re: [IBO] Network Connection
Author Lester Caine <lester@lsces.e2binternet.c
--- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, "Alan McDonald" <alan@m...> wrote:
> I must be confused... I always thought frame relay was faster than 128K
> which is what ISDN is (here anyway). I thought frame relay was 256K
or at
> least that's what Im told about this frame relay. Anyway - nice to
here it
> performs well at the 64K speed.

Frame Relay is as fast as the connections you pay for. Think of it as
the forerunner of the internet. The central network is FAST, using
standard telecom packets. We have a 2Mb link at the control centre,
and 64k links at the stations, so we can talk to 32 stations in
parallel at 64k. BT take care of getting the data to the right place.

You may have seen comments from me about local databases. We run a
local copy of Firebird at each site, and so only transfer the changes
from the master database. The result is very fast performance, and BT
tell us that we are having trouble hitting 1% of the capacity we are
paying for <g>

( This had not gone through from my eMail - i'll be glad when they fix
it AGAIN <g> )