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On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Brian wrote:
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> I don't know how serious traders do it. Put up with an internet only feed.
> I would never have the confidence to do that. My Sat delivery is rock solid
> in my experience. Mainly I don't worry about surprise disconnects in the
> middle of the trading day. With the internet, even when there's not a
> network issue per se something can affect your connection that prevents
> delivery of data. The are many points in the delivery line. Take today for
> instance. It's 12:30, the markets rocking and what does AT+T decide to do?
> Run bloody tests on the feed. The internet feed was down until around 1:30.
> This is just one example and I can think of several. The internet is just
> to unstable to trade reliably on, which is why you need redundancy if you're
> going to use TS6 IMO. Then there's omega doing upgrades during market hours.
> That's a whole other can of worms. Won't even go there.
What sat service do you use?
Mike
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