Running Excel models across a WAN link

[SuWoon]

Users are accessing complex Excel models on a file server at a remote site
connected with a WAN link (45mbps). Is there any way to speed up the
response time when data is saved back to the share on the remote site?
Network bandwidth does not appear to be the bottleneck. What other
applications could be used besides Excel that would work well across a WAN
link? Or is there some other architecture that could be used to improve
response time?

 

[Jim Rech]

Network bandwidth does not appear to be the bottleneck.

As far as I know Excel doesn't go into slow mode when dealing with remote
files, so the problem is likely something to do with the network broadly
speaking. I certainly notice that file opening and saving is a lot slower
on a server than on my local drive. One common issue is virus checking on
the server when a file is saved. That slows things down for sure,
especially for large files.

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Jim
| Users are accessing complex Excel models on a file server at a remote site
| connected with a WAN link (45mbps). Is there any way to speed up the
| response time when data is saved back to the share on the remote site?
| Network bandwidth does not appear to be the bottleneck. What other
| applications could be used besides Excel that would work well across a WAN
| link? Or is there some other architecture that could be used to improve
| response time?