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To: Larry Shelor who wrote (5091)	7/18/1999 8:21:00 PM
From: wily	Read Replies (1) of 7382

I don't want to sound like a monitor salesman and I know everyone has to act according to their own instincts, but you will CONSERVE bandwidth by having extra charts constantly open and devoted to a few selected indexes. It's changing symbols in a chart or T&S or MM window that strains your bandwidth. When a chart is open and up-to-date, it is only requesting info every time the clock ticks. And the info is just one price. When you switch to a new symbol in a chart you are requesting all the data in that chart and that's a big draw for 56K. Plus, it takes time to drag and drop, maximize and size again, time when the shares you wanted may disappear. My second monitor was all I had anticipated and more. Everyone who hooks up #2 is real happy. Hell, even the staff at MB use dual monitors! (Not to imply that they are an inferior species <g>). w

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