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Hello Brian,
Agree, Agreed, Agree! For last two years I've been running
FutureSource (satellite) with TS4 on one machine and TS4, now TS6 by
internet. FS is bit pricey relative to internet but data maintenance
time is nil,interuptions nonexistent. I use DSL mainly but retained a
regular ISP in case Verizon's network goes down (infrequent). Each
machine is on a separate circuit in my house, have backup keyboards,
mice, and of course a battery power supply. There is only one of
me--but I'm working on it :)
Thursday, January 31, 2002, 1:58:30 AM, you wrote:
B> I don't know how serious traders do it. Put up with an internet only feed.
B> I would never have the confidence to do that. My Sat delivery is rock solid
B> in my experience. Mainly I don't worry about surprise disconnects in the
B> middle of the trading day. With the internet, even when there's not a
B> network issue per se something can affect your connection that prevents
B> delivery of data. The are many points in the delivery line. Take today for
B> instance. It's 12:30, the markets rocking and what does AT+T decide to do?
B> Run bloody tests on the feed. The internet feed was down until around 1:30.
B> This is just one example and I can think of several. The internet is just
B> to unstable to trade reliably on, which is why you need redundancy if you're
B> going to use TS6 IMO. Then there's omega doing upgrades during market hours.
B> That's a whole other can of worms. Won't even go there.
B> Good thing I don't rely on TS6 and the internet to trade.
B> B.
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Best regards,
Jim mailto:jejohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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