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I can vouch for my problem being BMI specific since I swithced from BMI sat
to Comstock sat then DTN sat. I was using TS4 with BMI and Comstock then
TS100 with DTN. Comstock data was fine but it was triple the cost of DTN.
My problems went away when I got rid of BMI. This is regarding stock data
and equity options data and indices. I am not a futures trader. I also
found BMI tech support and customer service to be arrogant, even rude and
totally unhelpful.
My tick count from DTN for QCOM for 1/31 is 95,762 incl dribble, 95,558 as
of 16:00:00. HBank's lower numbers are very strange and I have confirmed
this in my own downloads too. They use DTN sat to collect HBank data but I
have never gotten a straight answer as to why I get higher tick counts.
They may not have a high speed serial card or may not have the serial port
speed set at 460.8 which is essential to avoid buffer overruns at the DTN
box. Anyway I refuse to use Hbank intraday data since it is grossly
inaccurate.
As to DTN cable, a tech person at DTN told me thier cable feed does not
work. He suggested that they may drop it. He flat out said dont use it. I
cant use cable anyway, it is too unreliable. Builders are always cutting
the cable around here and we loose service weekly. DTN sat is totally
reliable, not one interruption since I signed up in 3/99.
Bill Wood
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James F. Mazzulla [mailto:tagteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 10:09 PM
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Re[2]:BMI RealTime $59/mth vs TradeStation.com for $???
>
>
> On 1/28, Sentinel received 98,947 ticks for QCOM while
> William Wood got 98,898.....a virtual tie given the sheer
> number of ticks. Both were using the same s/w and DTN (I
> presume via SAT) on different machines with different OS's.
>
> So, I'm interested........what's the consensus now? Clearly,
> BMI does not measure up (not even close, in fact). The data
> I downloaded from HB for QCOM came in at around 78k and
> change for 1/28 and, today (1/31) I got precisely 76,612
> ticks with my BMI cable feed. Obviously the disparity here
> is =huge=.
>
> Also, is anyone using DTN via cable? I'm curious as to
> whether DTN's cable feed is comparable (or at least close)
> to their SAT feed. TIA
>
> Best regards,
> Jim
>
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