By "fixed laptops" do you mean wired?
By fixed I just meant they are not carried around, they live in the rooms. But also they do use wired networking. No wireless in the office. It is 100Mbit. I have never looked at the cost of upgrading that in place. If we were to do a new office, I would do Gbit at least.
Test the access time to the database on your main computer or server (running the AC database) on the client laptop (using the AC Utilities), and compare it to the time to connect to the database when AC Utilities is run on the main computer.
The Speed Test in AC Utilities says about 0.3 seconds from the main machine and about 0.9 seconds from one of the laptops.
It's taking us about 25 seconds to log in the first time after just starting AC, from when I hit the Log In button to when the main screen is drawn (drawing itself takes less than a second). If we Logout and then log back in, without shutting down AC, that is more like 45 seconds. Which is a bit perverse, why should it be longer?
On the main machine which is a far faster machine than the laptop, and with no networking involved, I'm getting about 14 seconds the first time or during a re-login.
That suggests to me I'm never going see under 14 seconds on the laptops even if we were to get new fast ones. Because how could we beat the main machine?
I'd be curious what times other people get, from the Log In button to the main screen. What I really wish is that AC had some kind of fast-user-switching, so the Dr. and CNA are both logged in at once, but they can switch back and forth in less than a second.
Otherwise is there some way to avoid the login penalty? If the Dr. carried a laptop around it goes away, but that is a big change and has its own issues.
