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I just got my DTN satellite to feed UMDS to feed TW. $300 down and $119 a
month for stocks and futures. I'm dumping DBC cable and TradeSatan ASAP.
DTN is terminating their cable feed due to the lag problems.
Kent
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Massey <bnm03@xxxxxxx>
To: List, Omega <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, February 12, 2000 12:48 AM
Subject: RE: BMI's huge lag in futures
Yeah, when I was using BMI, stocks were regularly 45 seconds to a full
minute behind my CyberCorp feed via a 56K modem. A lot can happen in the 1
minute in the stock market and this is not real time. Around 30 second lag
is what I experienced in futures. I didn't care about this lag because it
was consistently around 30 seconds and the futures don't move as much as
stocks do ('cept maybe the spoos).
The only other option(s) is to go internet or dedicated satellite.
Dedicated satellite is the most expensive route (around $600/mo for
Hyperfeed), S+P COmstock is $700-$1000/mo for sat. Their internet delivery
is cheaper -- starting at I think $300/mo.
So that makes BMI the ONLY cable feed still out there???
I use PCQuote and experience almost NO lag between CC and PCQ. Has anybody
else had similar success? For other PCQuote users, what have your
experiences been. Good/Bad, large lag, etc.
How does Quote.com stack up against PCQuote?
DTN is going all internet? Or, are they shutting down shop?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IUhrik@xxxxxxx [mailto:IUhrik@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 10:08 AM
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: BMI's huge lag in futures
>
>
> There were some posts here in past concerning the time lag in the futures
> data for various datafeeds.
>
> I was just comparing the S&P E-mini data delivered by BMI cable and that
> byThowsend Analytics' (TAL) delivered through internet (supplied
> by CME as
> a pilot program).
>
> Over the past 30 minutes, in a period of a light activity, S&P
> E-mini on BMI
> was consistently lagging the exchange data by 15-25 seconds. The thirty
> minutes' test was long enough for me to get thoroughy disgusted.
>
> Their bandwith limitations nothwithstanding, BMI should deliver data in a
> timely manner for at least a couple of major symbols, such as spoos and
> key indexes.
>
> I am sending a complaint to BMI. Anybody cares to join?
>
> Igor Uhrik
>
>
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