Hello Harald, >I do not have a solution, but I can confirm the problem :) At least that rules out any misconfiguration issues :-( >I did not find a solution so far; and for bulk data transfers I now >programmed a workaround. But that is surely based on some component installed on the server, isn't it? To be honest I didn't expect top performance, but the speed I got suggested some error on my part. Rainer