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William,
great review. I notice you posted first on 29/4/99, sure your real names
not Bill........Cruz?
>Fortunately I have a good experience with Ts2k to report.
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>Recd Ts2k SP2 last week and installed over Ts2k SP1 (Build 512)running on
>Win98. Total disaster. Nothing worked, all data lost. Formatted hard
>drive and reinstalled Win98 then installed SP2 only. Worked OK but I got a
>few spontaneous crashes which took GS out while collecting RT data. Also
my
>quotes were a little behind my broker.
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>Upgraded computer (Dell 450 PII, 256mb ram) to NT4 SP4 over this past
>weekend. This was a clean install on a formatted hard disk. Installed all
>perpherials and got internet and network connections working. Install
>included TurboComm 16750 UART serial port. Then installed Ts2k SP2 with no
>probs. Ts2k recognized the fast serial card and initialized it at 460800
>bps. Then imported stock and index data from HistoryBank CD, no probs.
>Took about 1 hour to bring in 9000 symbols. Then downloaded the gap from
>4/30/99 to 5/28/99 from Omga FTP site. Took another hour for the 9k
>symbols, no probs.
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>Then I connected to the DTN box Mon night at 460kbps and quotes began to
>come in immediately. Today GS and Charting and Quote Monitor work fine.
No
>crashes yet and this is definitely a record. Every prior install of Ts2k
on
>Win98 crashed repeatedly for the first day or so. Most importantly my
>quotes are now ahead of my broker by a few seconds. Also NT performance
>monitor shows only an average of 20% CPU usage running Ts2k and playing
>Dixie Chicks CD, Wide Open Spaces. D Chicks helps me feel good when I'm
>getting hosed by mkt, like I am right now. :-).
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>In short, as others have already reported, get on NT with SP2. It may not
be
>perfect and I haven;t had time to check everything but it sure works better
>so far. I also highly recommend DTN satellite. Its the only datafeed I
have
>used that works right. (Signal, BMI & Comstock satellite all gave me
massive
>grief with TS4)
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>Bill
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