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Hi Seb,

The providers you mention are likely referring to the number of connections

they're charging you for - in other words, they're charging you a flat fee

independent of number of connections - they're not necessarily saying FMS

supports unlimited connections.

The reason connections take the time they do (4 seconds can easily be

buried, IMO), is that they need to be load-balanced to an appropriate FMS

server, which takes about a second. The room needs to instantiate, which

takes about a second, and then the Flash Player needs to synchronize with

it, which takes about a second. Add a second for network latency, and there

you go.

hope that helps,

nigel