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Ken - 14 Nov 2005 18:19 GMT

I have a customer who recently added a wireless laptop user to his group of
users that are using an Access 2000 database application I developed. All
has been working great until the wireless user has come on-board. However,
now the database corrupts. I'm thinking that accessing the database over two
different network environments (LAN and WLAN) is causing the problem. Also,
perhaps the speed is the culprit (300Kbps WLAN v, 10 or 100Mbps LAN). Any
thoughts?

Ken

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Rick Brandt - 14 Nov 2005 19:00 GMT

> I have a customer who recently added a wireless laptop user to his
> group of users that are using an Access 2000 database application I
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> Ken

In most cases wireless is simply not reliable enough for an Access
file-share to run over. An Access file-share application is a bit of a
"canary in the coal mine" for your network. It will not tolarate dropped
packets and brief outages in the connection as well as most other
applications and these (as you have seen) often lead to the file being
corrupted.

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