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Re: Proposed experiment for WOW users



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I'm getting set up with www.equitytrading.com both for the cheaper 
commissions and hopefully more reliable data, but I thought I should try to 
get some actual relative performance data.  I like the indicators and 
charting of WOW, but if they are going to be no more (or even less) 
reliable than Cyber's data, I'll drop them from further consideration. -uf

At 10:53 PM 10/31/00 -0500, Sigstroker@xxxxxxx wrote:
>My trading buddies that use Cyber are getting ready to dump it because of
>reliability problems and quotes falling behind at times.
>
>In a message dated 10/31/00 7:40:07 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>markbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> > Hello  Ullrich,
> >
> >  i  can  tell  you right now that cybercorp should beat them all.  they
> >  are  setting  on  one of the only two oc 192 backbones in the country,
> >  they use sp comstock as a back up.  the whole reason they use pcq over
> >  spc,  is speed.  i honestly belive whatever is the best for the client
> >  that  is  what  cybercorp  will  do.   that's  what  has  made them so
> >  formidable.
> >
> >  wow  is up here in richardson which means that they have to go through
> >  the    dallas   bottleneck  to  get  data out.  they use spc as a data
> >  feed.
> >
> >  mark
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  Tuesday, October 31, 2000, 8:16:30 PM, you wrote:
> >
> >  UF> I would like to call up a current WOW user by telephone during market
> > hours
> >  UF> and compare how up to date the WOW (Windows on Wall Street) datafeed
>is
> >  UF> compared to what I'm seeing from Cybercorp (forwarded through their
> > servers
> >  UF> from PCQUOTE) and possibly www.equitytrading.com (when I get their
>feed
> > set
> >  UF> up).  I may also be able to arrange to have a friend call you up and
> >  UF> compare the WOW speed to his feed from mbTrading.  Anyone interested,
> >  UF> please reply directly to me by email and include your telephone 
> number
> > and
> >  UF> when you would like to be called.  I have found several free and 
> fixed
> > cost
> >  UF> long distance services, so there is no extra cost to me for making 
> the
> >  UF> phone call.  The idea is to read off the T&S prints to each other and
> > try
> >  UF> to determine from the pattern of prints how far apart in time the
>prints
> >
> >  UF> are coming in and which service is faster.
> >