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I have a Telocity DSL line I use as my primary internet connection and
receive quotes from esignal. I also have an ISDN line as a backup. For the
last two weeks my dsl line has been down. It seems Ameritech inadvertently
used my line to provide a second phone line for a new neighbor, since it
appeared as there was no traffic on the dsl line. No analog traffic, just my
data, which makes no noise when listened to by the phone installer. As of
today there is still no ETA for its my dsl's return. The point of this is,
the internet is not at all reliable and the number of points prone to
failure or delay from your data's origin untill it gets to you are large and
highly unpredictable. The problem is, the internet is the cheapest method of
data delivery for the vendors to support, (like esignal really has support,
haha, 30 minutes or more on hold for a support tech is ridiculous,) and that
is why you see the big push toward internet data. You will lose data using
the internet and there is no way to predict when, how or why. My response
has been to make my internet connection as fast and redundant as possible
two ISP's, one dial up, one hard wire) and a separate computer to manage
just the connections. If you are watching tick counts and are using a dial
up line, your tick counts will be way off no matter what you do. I would
like to know if others have gone to great lengths to guarantee an internet
connection and what some of the other solutions have been.
> At 12:18 PM 4/30/00, Bob Heisler wrote:
> >For those of us who are currently receiving data via the Net, or for
those
> >who have tried, it normally turns into a love-hate relationship.
Internet
> >outages are not uncommon and usually occur at the most inopportune times.
> >snip>
>
> As many of you know, the CME has a free pilot system for providing
> real-time Globex2 quotes. The page at:
>
> http://www.cme.com/web/live/
>
> contains the following warning:
>
> Note: these prices are being provided via the Internet, which is not
always
> robust or reliable. If you need a robust and reliable service for trading
> purposes that doesn't rely on the Internet, we recommend using a quote
> vendor. The CME Quote Vendor directory is available at
> http://www.cme.com/market/vendor.html.
>
> And Internet failures aren't always due to ISP problems or server
problems.
> There have been multiple failures of the backbone administered by Worldcom
> in the NYC area this past month (through which a lot of traffic in the
> Northeast flows).
>
> Allan
>
>
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