Originally Posted by
alanjrobertson
Thanks for your comments,
vbroucek 
I take your point, but I think that in the practical usage of trying to find Award availability on a route by going through different days it remains a perfectly fair comparison. I'm not trying to do a speed test, I'm trying to look at real world use. As it is, it's around 3-4x slower than browsing ANA tool with my web browser - therefore to my mind I'm not getting great benefit.
Well, I take it that by using KVS I am getting other benefits and that I am having "all in one" tool... You might have read critical posts from me, so you probably know that I am not defending KVS just because of KVS. I just really find it much easier to use KVS than going to all those sites looking for information...
Originally Posted by
alanjrobertson
Totally fair point, I was just trying to highlight that it's not my internet connection per se that's slow. I also still find it funny that direct connection to the same site by a different 'browser' on my system (as KVS apparently is) should take any longer a route/number of hops than browsing to it. I think the next point probably addresses the issue more.
You have good point here - it cannot be hops... I still think it is the way how KVS talks to ANA website... It might be that some steps are replicated without need, but then who knows.
Originally Posted by
alanjrobertson
Ahh - that's sounding like a clue!
That might or might not be the clue. KVS is (I think) written in Visual Basic 6 and there is no other way than using msinet.ocx unless you are winsock programming guru and do everything low level. I think I have seen somewhere some posts about some issues with speed of msinet.ocx.