Sharpeware

Sharpeware have made progressive speed improvements for data collection over a number of software updates, so its very important that you are using the latest build available on our web site.

With a reasonably performing PC/network/server, you should see data collection speeds of between 20 and 500 files/second. If you estimate the speed in these terms (i.e. how many files were collected over the given period) this will give some indication of whether there is a problem or not.

If you are collecting at an appropriate speed, but this is too slow for your purposes, you could try one of these approaches:

1. Run parallel collections to different data files, either on one PC or multiple PCs
2. Consider installing SPACEWatch on the server and running the collection locally (this typically results in vast speed improvements), then use another copy of SPACEWatch on your PC to analyse the data
3. Consider using SPACEWatch Enterprise Edition, with Enterprise Edition installed on the server, hence allowing one or more PC users to share the same collected data without having to mess about with data files. See http://www.sharpeware.com/html/spacewatch5_enterprise for more details.