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I have tried not to get involved in the bi**h sessons on the list, but I
have had it with the 800 error. Supply and demand will fix the problem, as
soon as demand starts to dwindle then maybe they will fix the problem. This
is a cash cow for them, Reuters all ready have the data for their
institutional clients and selling to us is just extra.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John Rastutis
> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 12:35 PM
> To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Reuters Download Problems
>
>
> All Reuters customers...
>
> In the short time I have been using Reuters as my provider I have found
> an obvious correlation with downloading errors and "heavy usage days".
>
> The service is at its worst on huge price/volume days in the stock
> markets. The night at the end of a weekend or holiday also seems to be
> troublesome.
>
> IMHO Reuters won't admit that the service doesn't have the capacity for
> "everybody" to download on those peak days.
>
> With some simple experimentation I have found that even on those very
> heavy days if I reduce my request for symbols down to the most
> essential, I can avoid those errors. In my case that's requesting a
> couple hundred issues verses my usual 1200 or so. Then the next day at a
> "quiet" download time I will go back and get the rest of my data.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Best... John
>
>
> Your Name wrote:
> >
> > Is it just me or are others having problems, once again, obtaining
> > downloads from Reuters Datalink. Keep getting "Error Reading Packet",
> > and "Error Reading Transfer File"
>
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