I'm in Europe, at home I get the same quick reponse as you have in the US, I have a 100Mbit internet connection at home, like most people.

It's just the...

The 48 seconds is not CPU waiting time, just waiting for the data to get throug the freakin WAN. The query itself runs only for +/- 4 seconds. Our environment...

Actually, we can, I tested the NitroSphere software, and it make a huge difference.

We have not implemented it in our production environment yet, but we will definitly deploy it in...

Any input? Does anyone have the same situation were you have to connect multiple instances in a high latency, low bandwidth WAN environment? And how do you cope with this?

Thanks for the input!

STD vs ENT edition will always be a discussion here, the ENT edition is much more expensive... again I don't think the costs will outweight the benifit....

I was also not aware of any difference, but a consultant from an external company told me the hot stand by of the 2nd node would only work on Entrprise...

Thanks