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Wouldn't you be connecting your external cable modem to an Ethernet NIC on
the PC?
At 05:56 PM 5/22/99 +0100, Gerrit Jacobsen wrote:
>Jim,
>
> > 1. Will cable modems represent an improvement and elimate the need for
> > me to get a high speed port?
>
>Depends, if this an external modem it will make your need for
>high speed port even more urgent since the data has to get somehow
>into your computer. If it is an internal modem you don't need any
>port at all.
>
> > 2. What does a high speed port offer beyond my USR 56K VoiceWin modem?
>
>That you don't lose your data. The basic issue is that your
>operating system cannot poll the data as fast as necessary
>from the port. This is why the port must be able to store as much
>data as possible.
>
> > 3. I've run TRACERT but don't know what to do with the info. What can
> > you do about it if your route to the data provider's server is going
> > through Bangladesh several times?
>
>You can lease a dedicated line or get some decent satellite service.
>
> > 4. What is the "Code List" and how does one join?
>
>This is a marketing tool from Mr. Brown where users get abused for
>free by Mr. Brown in the following fashion:
>
> > thanks a bunch for your long ass post, it was certainly a total
> > frickin waste of my time to respond to such bull crap. but given
> > you may be gone soon, i wanted to spend some time with you before
> > you and the people you are trolling for blow out - mr. sentinel
> > trading ! mb
>
>See: www.markbrown.com if you don't believe it.
>
>Gerrit Jacobsen
>
>
> >
> > Thanks for any input.
> >
> > -----------------------
> > "Sentinel Trading" <rjbiii@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in part:
> >
> >
> > I can now call the Quotes off my RadarScreen and be with the DTN Data
> > Dept.,
> > allowing for transmission times, which is in the Milliseconds, and am
> > now far
> > faster than the Internet feeds that I have been running side by side.
> >
> > I was missing a lot of ticks at least 1/3, for some symbols before
> > installing
> > the High Speed Port, due to the buffers on a standard URT port. In fact
> > some
> > symbols would not even up date for several minutes after the open due
> > being
> > trapped in the buffers. The GlobalServer allows all the Quotes to pass
> > off the
> > DTN Box, as do several other servers. The flow of data is tremendous.
> > There are
> > over 132,000 option symbols alone. Try that on the Internet.
> >
> > I have tried to provide assistance to those that ask for it with 2000i,
> > mostly
> > privately this is the Omega List. I have gotten most of the ideas for
> > the
> > systems that I use from this and the Code List.
> >
> > Lets discuss Internet congestion. lets run tracert to one of the data
> > servers all day, and test the packets
> > dropped and return speeds. In fact I have a program that will do just
> > that.
> >
> > I was slow running DTN and tracked the problem down to the Serial Port
> > Speed,
> > try running hyper terminal during the market and watch the Overflows on
> > the DTN
> > Box and the Overrun errors on the computer side.
> >
> >
Ullrich Fischer
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