LOL… I truly wish I could “look deeper in the demo”, but the demo isn't very deep to begin with! You don't allow us to view the PHP file in the demo. And again, the demo doesn't tell exactly which options are required to make it work. Obviously it's not as straight forward as you seem to indicate!
If I change the index.js rowNum: argument to 1000, the grid only loads the first 1000 rows. Is there something else I need to change to make it support loading 1000 rows at a time, or is it limited to auto-loading only 100?