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I'm on the 64k satellite feed in Europe. Mostly stable, but has had three
episodes of downtime recently. Based on past performance I expect they'll
get on top of the problem sooner or later.
I'd be very reluctant to switch to any Internet-based feed simply because
it's impossible to get decent service level guarantees from Internet
service providers - nothing to do with Futuresource in particular.
Reliability matters in this game, and satellite delivery is pretty good in
that respect.
Regards,
Stefan
At 20:33 21/02/03 -0800, Ray Gurke wrote:
I was hoping I could get an opinion from those of you currently using
FutureSource.
Background -- Several years ago I did some work for a firm specializing in
currency trading. One of my tasks was to set up their FS data feed. It is a
19.2k satellite feed. It is still working fine for their limited needs. They
recently received a letter from FS stating that as of June 30th, the 19.2k
feed would be eliminated and would either have to upgrade to a 56k sat feed
(one time charge of $800 plus an additional $25/mo) or upgrade to the FS
internet based feed. In the letter, FS is clearly pushing the i-net feed,
stating its many "advantages". So.. From your experience, I'm hoping some of
you can shed some light on benefits/drawbacks of each, or either feed (56k
sat or i-net).
Thanks much.
Ray
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