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So far, over the year or so that I've been actively trading, the limiting
factor on reliability has been my data feed. I upgraded to cable modem
recently and find that 2-3 times a week, my feed drops out for a minute or
more. I've kept a time limited account on my old ISP in case there is a
larger outage, in which case I would continue to get eSignal through my old
modem connection. -uf
At 08:01 AM 7/28/99 -0500, andren wrote:
>Dear List Members,
>
>The list seems to contain traders of all levels of skill and capitalization.
>I was wondering to what levels you go , in order to guarantee you get quotes
>and can place trades. The reason I was asking this, is I am considering
>another computer that is basically running in tandem with either ts2000 on
>both, or as I am considering now, ts2000 on one and ts4 on the other. Do you
>also have duplicate data feeds (this has been touched on breifly by other
>posters), split the feed or use internet and cable for example. It seems
>like a lot of extra expense, but I feel one or two crashes at the wrong time
>could easily cost you enough (or if you got lucky, make you enough) to pay
>for an extra computer and monthly data feed fee. I realize that this isnt
>that important for the longer term traders on the list, but if you are using
>a real time feed and trading several times or contracts a day, how
>bulletproof do you feel you need to make your hardware system.
>
>Thanks,
>Dale
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