Linked tables on network in Access 2000

I’m a newbie in the world of VBA. I love working with it, but have run into a problem. I have a .mdb data file out on the network and a .mdb file (user interface with forms and report, linked to data file)on the client machine. The connection is extremely SLOW. I was wondering if anyone else has run into this and what I can do (with or without code) to pick up the performance.