Luca, I'm also very concerned about the performance of the web service. Did you time the call and did it take 5 seconds? Ord did the page take 5 seconds to load? Edward

There are no restrictions on speed for trial accounts. Since you are on ADSL2+ I'm going to assume its something in the range of 20Mb down and 1.3Mb up and perhaps in the UK (Most likely BT?) The use of the SOAP interface incurs quite a bit of overhead for a few reasons, first its doing base64 encoding...