Network Round Trips when loading a Form - reducing Network Latency

Question

I am working on a Forms migration from Client-Server to WebForms running on Application Server 10.1.2.0.2
Does anyone know the minimum number of network round trips that can be achieved when loading a Form?
For most of the Forms in the migration I am seeing 3 network round-trips before the Form is displayed and on Forms that use Webutil I am seeing 7 round-trips before the Form is displayed. Is this normal or are there ways of optimizing the round-trips down?
The Forms code has already been optimized by removing SYNCHRONIZE commands and TIMER commands and I have already refered to metalink note 363285.1 which gives lots of good advice however there is no specific information on the minimum number of round trips that you can expect for loading a Form.
Thanks for any help you can give.
Philippe

Answer 1

Ok, a bit of an update is needed.
There were a number of posts below that have been lost due to an accidental deletion but I shall try and summarize them here:
Tony Garabedian - Posted a number of code optimizations that he'd used for speeding up code when querying within a Form. Tony if you are able to re-post those that would be great :-)
Grant Ronald - posted some more information in which he mentioned that the extra pings are used to synchronize between the App.Server and the client. He also commented that a network that uses satellite was inherently slower and would therefore require a different front end to handle the increase in latency.
For my part I said nothing new other than ask loads more questions. I did mistakenly comment that we are using satellite for our network however upon yet more discussion with our network guy it turns out that we're using optical cable for everything. Out guaranteed round trip time is about 320 milli-seconds to Australia from the UK.
Currently I am left with the understanding that we are not likely to go below 3 round trips for most of our Forms and in the case of Webutil we are likely to be limited to 7 round trips.
Of course if anyone out there has any specific experience with this issue and can comment further please feel free.
Many thanks,
Philippe