Great and interesting contribution, but what about the quality of the connection? Bandwith is not all, IMHO.
Since not all the systems are always available in the place where you are trading (think of trading in an hotel, or in a secundary residence), I am investigating the real performance for trading of the most common ones, at the low end.
I have my principal station connected by dialup ISDN. I have two account nominally with the same bandwith, but one, with higher quality, costs to me four times the other, that I use as backup, and I can see the difference by using a ping/traceroute program.
Indeed, it seems to me more effective having less hops with shorter times than a larger bandwith.I can use with the same accounts analogic modems too, and apparently I can have the data feeds runnings quite in the same way (few stocks, two graphs)even with a V32bis modem, while I can notice as well the difference in the accounts. I have just started experimenting a cellular modem at 9600 too, and even if it is obviously not raccomended by my broker, it seems working!
So, if a large bandwith is fine to have the data feed running smoothly, few, fast hops could really made a difference in sending orders and getting executions messages.
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