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Strategies & Market Trends : Systems, Strategies and Resources for Trading Futures
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To: OX who wrote (41912)12/7/2000 4:38:37 PM
From: Louis V. Lambrecht  Read Replies (2) of 44573
 
OX - I would pay anything (almost) for a reliable 64 kbps connection, not cached, not Akamaized, pure plain connection to the net.
have experienced throughputs of less than that with my cable modem, and my xDSL provider charges above 1GB per month are such that a dedicated data line becomes competitive.

BTW, none of the providers, on my market, have a QoS (Quality of Service = guaranteed throughput) agreement.
Or at the same prices as a dedicated dataline.

Problem always is in the local servers caching softwares, used by most cable, xDSL and some dial-in providers: most data are first attempted to be retrieved in the cache before a request is done to the originator. Can lead to some delays incompatible with RT trading (yet another slippage).

I can't find any service with guaranteed throughput and without caching.
So, I don't complain: all available services are crap until I install my own server on a dedicated data line. (But I then will be responsible for my own redundancy, meaning at least 2 dedicated data lines on two different media using two different crossings......).
Meanwhie, best solution is the cheapest available, plus vocal phone connections in case of problem.
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