Re: ? sql access over 9.6 kbps line ?

Yaakov Lerner (SDH-S) (lerner@ecitele.com) wrote: > > In practice, did anybody try or use SQL database access > over 9.6 kbit/s line ? I mean, using TCP/IP and PPP as transport level ? > > What is the kind of speed you get ? > Any experience with other baud rates over WAN, like 56..64 kbit/s ? > > For comparison: I tried X-protocol over 9.6 kbps, and I can say it worked > in theory and as an example, but in *practice*, everything is so > slow that very few people would want to use it every day. > > Please respond directly to: lerner@ecitele.com > > Jacob Lerner > ECI Telecom, Inc > We have played with SQL*Net over SLIP over 14.4. Totally unacceptable response time for anything other than SQL*Plus. Our app - MS-Windows on 486/66DX2 using Visual Basic, Q+E, SQL*Net V1 degraded from 3 sec direct TCP/IP over Ethernet to 75 sec TCP/IP over SLIP. Our response ... use a Windows - Windows comm pacjage such as 'Close-Up' or 'Remotely Possible' to name a few. /Hans