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Quite some time ago (6 - 8 months) I mentioned in
a post that internet streaming data feed will never
be enough not because the data vendor are under power,
but because internet is a "public" bandwidth.
"Public" implies free - you with high speed DSL
will share the max bandwidth of your local hub/router
of your ISP will zillions of 56K free of charge users.
"Public" implies abuse - you are using time critical
data on a bandwidth that allows everybody to flood
anything into it. Everytime the whole "whatever"
upgrade their own network 10 times in speed,
immediately someone will find a way to fully utilize
it. Real time market data is one type. Online movie
and online music are examples of other types.
Bandwidth will never ever be enough.
Data vendors will never find a stable way to utilize
the internet, because there is no real standard.
Data vendors on internet has no control over the
very thing that they deliver time critical data to
you.
In our area, we have local newsgroups and I checked
the complain cycle when people find the internet
is not useable. The answer is so simple. Whenever
the stock market is busy :) every morning at mkt open,
every busy/crazy closing and worst yet, when the
mkt really tanking fast.
You may consider switching to a non-streaming vendor
who keep your trading setup at their server. BUT,
one, you are giving away your trading secrets; and
two, when the mkt is really busy - your local ISP
will breakdown anyway, so it does not matter :)
Maybe you can try switching to use the DTN as
primary feed or whatever fast satellite feed
and quote.com as backup ...
I have quote.com too, and definitely it's a
secondary thing - use it only when I am not in
my office.
--- Michael Berger <mberger@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I use QCHARTS 4.0 via DSL line. Over the past week
> or so I've had regular
> slowdowns & periods when quotes stop for a couple of
> minutes. (I have DTN
> via satellite for duplicate.)
>
> Several times when this occurs I've returned to
> QCHARTS ver 2.3, & receive
> quotes again.
>
> I've tried switching servers while using ver 4.0,
> but without much success.
>
> Are others experiencing problems with Quote.com?
>
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Lawrence Chan http://www.tickquest.com
Innovative Analytical Software for Trading Professionals
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