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super slow GUI on split MS access database

Hi,
I have a split database (tables (1.3MB) on server and GUI (7MB) on both server and laptop).

When opening the GUI using a vpn connection on the laptop the application loads very slowly and when i open a form (from a menu in the GUI) it takes forever to load.

when it has loaded the form and i choose a record from a dropdown list in the form it takes forwever again to load.

It seems like there is a lot of traffic between the server and the laptop using vpn.

What can be wrong with this application ?
Please help !

Pierre
Nov 28 '10 #1
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The issue is very likely to be that you are now working within a WAN and not a LAN. Wide area networks will always be snail pace slow if you are running a typical split database set up where your client has the front end and the back end is hosted as a mdb file on a server folder.

The only way for you to increase the speed is to upsize your backend to a mysql or similar server.

For full information regarding why WAN's are inheritently slower there is a great article here:

http://www.members.shaw.ca/AlbertKallal/Wan/Wans.html
Nov 28 '10 #2

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