How long is it taking?

What kind of network connection is between the client computer and your Web server?

What types of external files are very large ones contributing most to the 400MB?  If most of the 400MB is because of your external DLLs, DLLs cannot be compressed anyway so I think you may boost performance by putting your external DLLs under the "Uncompressed" section instead of packages.

Hi Dexter;

   Are your PBD's being encrypted?

Regards ... Chris 

Hi Andreas,

Let me try this and check the updates.

Thank you very much.

Dexter

As you are using packages, I believe that if one file inside your package is modified, then the whole package will be resent. Packages, as I understand them, have meaning to group files that won't change, or if there is some modification the whole group of files inside a specific package, should be uploaded again. So it's important to organize your external files in more than one packages trying to put in each package files that may be modified together.

From powerbuilder help file:

To deploy files as one compressed package, select Files preloaded as compressed packages from the list box, then click Create Package to create a package, and then click Add Folder or Add Files to add the folder or files under this package.

The key here is: one compressed package. If any file inside the package changes, the whole package will be regenerated (compressed) and will be changed. It will need to be resent, extracted etc.

Andreas.

Hi.

You should give us more details about your powerclient project. Anyway. You say external files are 400 MB. How are they organized? How many external files do you have? Have you tried to use packages? Are you aware that External files are excluded from download as necessary?

Andreas.