Compare SQL and Native network requirements?

pdj

I have always found NAV being very demanding regarding low latency for the network connection. We usually uses the NETTEST results (the Performance table) to compare the network capability of different sites. We have ended up recommending Citrix for sites not capable of delivering at least 3000 packets of 100bytes a second or 800 packets of 4000 bytes. (I know this is way more demanding than the Microsoft recommendation…)
But this recommendation was made for the Native database. I assume the SQL option is transmitting bigger but fewer packets. Is this correct, and has anyone done any comparing of number of packets for identical processes in SQL and Native? I would like to know if it only is 10% less packets or maybe 90% less. I currently have a client with poor nettest results but would like to avoid Citrix. I don’t know if I should suggest SQL for them. I know NAV SQL requires all sort of optimizations to work, I’m just curious if the network latency requirement is different.