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And nobody will ever need more than 640K of RAM... And
it will be impossible to put a man on the moon... and
there is no way a man made machine will be able to fly
with a person inside... and its not practical for a
vehicle to travel at more than 50 mph, a vacuum would
form inside the vehicle and all passengers would be
unable to breathe.
Granted we're not there yet, but never say never...
--- Lawrence Chan <stnahc@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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
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> Professionals
>
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