Add-in Vs Excel

I know this has been covered many times, but I couldn't find answers better than smartview is catching up.
We are on 11.1.2.3.502 (I know the add-in is not supported for the version but we still use it)
I have a sheet where when I retrieve results it takes 6 seconds in the add-in and smartview takes 45 seconds. Yes I used a stopwatch to count even when the difference was apparent.
I have tweaked all aps.properties files and do not know where to start to make smartview as good as the add-in.
I cannot tell my business users smartview has an additional layer of communication where it uses http to connect to provider services which in turn uses tcp/ip to connect to essbase where as the add-in uses tcp/ip directly to talk to essbase. They will not understand it and more importantly will not accept it.
Which is understandable because why take away something which works great?
Why can't Oracle just leave the add-in alone? Why do they have to retire it?
Also what do I do in this case? Where do I look to debug with such a difference in retrieval times? The reports are exactly the same. Please Help!
Thanks,
Ted.

Hi Ted,
You can use ExcelAddin but support won't be there.. I would have started to study from the network part for this delay.

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