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Hi Terry - thanks for pointing out the Tools/Misc Settings in
Amiquote. I cut my download time to less than 2 mins from 10-12
mins...and all this while, I thought it was the office internet :-)
Allus nice to learn something new everyday :-)
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Terry" <MagicTH@xxxx> wrote:
> I don't update that many symbols, but based on what I get I estimate
> 2500 would take around 10 minutes with my broadband connection.
>
> If you haven't already, select Settings from the Tools menu in
Amiquote
> and change the values under Misc. Settings. I use:
> Number of symbols per request : 200
> Number of simultaneous downloads: 10
> Number of automatic retries : 3
> Initial delay between requests : 100
>
> You may try some other values as you think appropriate to eliminate
your
> error messages. Changing the first two values REALLY improved the
> download times.
> --
> Terry
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> | Behalf Of E. R. Holley
> | Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 14:51
> | To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | Subject: [amibroker] Download questions
> |
> | 1) My downloads seem awfully slow, but I don't know whether the
> | problem is
> | with Yahoo or my ISP. I am downloading O, H, L, C, and V (no
intraday
> | data). I would appreciate knowing what a reasonable download
time is
> | for
> | daily updates for about 2500 symbols.
> | 2) On each download, I get "The operation timed out" for maybe
about
> | 1% to
> | 2% of the symbols and have to make a second pass to get the
remaining
> | symbols. Is that behavior fairly standard with Yahoo?
> | 3) Typically about what time in the evening (say in Eastern time
in
> | the
> | USA) are the daily Yahoo data available?
> | 4) Are there significant improvements in download speed,
reliability,
> | time
> | of availability, or other download characteristics for other
sources
> | of O,
> | H, L C, and V data compared to Yahoo?
> |
> | Thanks.
> |
> | Ed
> |
> |
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