Accesstables.com or eqldata.com

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Has anyone used these companies? Looking for possible alternatives to using
TS for a WAN based senerio,
Trying to run one split Access database with users not connected via a LAN
and/or bad WAN access.

I do some work in Haiti and they can't run TS because there Wan is too slow.

Wondering about data collisions (2 people modify the same contact etc...).

Thanks,
Mark
 
Has anyone used these companies?  Looking for possible alternatives to using
TS for a WAN based senerio,
Trying to run one split Access database with users not connected via a LAN
and/or bad WAN access.

I do some work in Haiti and they can't run TS because there Wan is too slow.

Wondering about data collisions (2 people modify the same contact etc...)..

Thanks,
Mark
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I explored them both in depth. AccessTables.com works - - but the key
is whether the concept is a fit. They are clear that they are not
real time and that you FTP or email your BE periodically i.e. once or
twice a day. The good thing is of course that Access is running
locally and you only use the internet/web to send/receive the tables.
We had a group that was already trained to email a file (an excel
sheet) with someone at HQ that was manually importing them... moving
to this solution was definitely better for them. A tad pricey maybe
but that was the customer's decision - I just helped them get set up.
They are a one product service so I like their focus.

EQLdata.com has 2 products; is ok on the browser enabled but the
latency is - or was - slow when I trialed it...but it worked and they
have a slick print method. When I tried their sync product, which
does what AccessTables.com does - did not work and was throwing off
our indexes but they said it was still in alpha, but that may be
fixed...plan to revisit their site and try it again in the near
future...
 
Thanks for the info. I'll test it out.


Has anyone used these companies? Looking for possible alternatives to
using
TS for a WAN based senerio,
Trying to run one split Access database with users not connected via a LAN
and/or bad WAN access.

I do some work in Haiti and they can't run TS because there Wan is too
slow.

Wondering about data collisions (2 people modify the same contact etc...).

Thanks,
Mark
Click to expand...

I explored them both in depth. AccessTables.com works - - but the key
is whether the concept is a fit. They are clear that they are not
real time and that you FTP or email your BE periodically i.e. once or
twice a day. The good thing is of course that Access is running
locally and you only use the internet/web to send/receive the tables.
We had a group that was already trained to email a file (an excel
sheet) with someone at HQ that was manually importing them... moving
to this solution was definitely better for them. A tad pricey maybe
but that was the customer's decision - I just helped them get set up.
They are a one product service so I like their focus.

EQLdata.com has 2 products; is ok on the browser enabled but the
latency is - or was - slow when I trialed it...but it worked and they
have a slick print method. When I tried their sync product, which
does what AccessTables.com does - did not work and was throwing off
our indexes but they said it was still in alpha, but that may be
fixed...plan to revisit their site and try it again in the near
future...
 
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