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Absolutely there is no question about the deterioration of the BMI service.
The hassels and complaints I've made have resulted in a similar vague
internal bmi responce about a "solution" coming for the BMI sat feed. Here
are the numbers. As it stands now you could get a BMI delayed and a
Realtime DTN for the cost of the BMI realtime at a fraction of the speed of
dtn. That shows you how poor the bmi price/performance/support is. BMI
management just hasn't put the resources into remaining competitive. It is
a sad situation because many serious traders are maintaining both a
satellite and an internet feed. DBC put their focus on the internet
solution for the masses and profit motives. Fine, but there is still a need
for satellite. After a decade with dbc signal and bmi I am planning to jump
ship by buying one of those PacificCommware dual high speed pci boards for
DTN.
BobRoeske
----- Original Message -----
From: <ALVIS2JS@xxxxxxx>
To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 9:06 AM
Subject: [RT] Re: BMI Satelitte Delays Continuing
> RTers,
>
> In the first hour this morning, BMI satellite feed was consistently
running
> 15 to 25 seconds behind the DOW quote screen bug on CNBC ( I run TS4B27 -
CME
> and CBOT only - 170 symbols). This problem, which I first noticed last
week,
> is, according to a particularly candid BMI tech support person, the result
of
> a serious shortage of bandwidth capacity due to the failure of DBC
management
> to commit the necessary resources and their indecision about whether to
> continue to offer the satellite service at all. Within the next week or
two,
> BMI hopes to improve the situation by reallocating delayed quote bandwidth
to
> the real time feed and dropping the delayed feed altogether within two
> months. However, the person I spoke with was skeptical that such a change
> would be much of an improvement. BMI eliminated delayed stocks from my
> profile and offered $50 credit on this months bill.
>
> I have been a BMI customer for more than 10 years and despite occasional
> problems, the satellite feed has been remarkably reliable - more reliable
to
> date than Internet, even with dedicated lines. If DBC will not now commit
to
> maintaining a first rate satellite service, may be time to move to move to
> Futuresource, DTN or other provider.
>
> Regards,
> Jim Alvis
>
>
>
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