HI I have 3 computers running an application i created linked to back end tables on our server.
When 1 computer is turned on the application runs fast (normal speed)
When the other two computers are turned on the applications runs very slow (seems to stutter - seems to be waiting for a connection then works fast again - different screens (tasks) seem to lag like this)
I had someone come in and confirm that our network is working properly - there didn't seem to be any problem communicating with the server from their perspective.
I had someone convince me to upgrade the computers to office 365 (which was painful). i was told that 1 purchase would allow me to install the software on 5 computers. This didn't correct the problem and the new outlook on office 365 is terrible - keeps crashing. I thought perhaps because the office 365 was on 3 computers but under the same user name might be slowing things down? I've since purchased a license for Office 2016 Professional and installed it on one of the computers (removing office 365 on that computer). This still hasn't fixed the lagging problem so i'm not convinced it has nothing to do with the user name being shared on 3 computers all running at the same time etc.
i'm now at a loss as to what would be causing this lag. I've installed the application on the server directly - linking to the backend tables also situated on the server and the program works perfectly. This is clearly a problem transferring information over the network. Also the laptop that now has the office 2016 pro version installed had the HD completely reformatted recently in an attempt to fix this problem - so i'm pretty sure the laptop is working fine.
Has anyone had similar problems and can you suggest things to try to fix this?
much appreciated.
regards,
Steve