They rotate , & not always the same way, lets say what every server
you get on, unless you use a book mark to pick, a robot picks
you one with the fewer logged in users.
The fact that there are fewer logged in on a server might in itself
indicate problem.
No matter what server you get a lot will depend on traffic..
not just with waterhouse either. Many times people jump to
conclusions it's with waterhouse when the web backbone is having
a problem, and not many people know how to tell the difference.
I have 3 ISPs, and can tell you they are not all equal at any
given time. I may use the uunet backbone , MCI backbone , or
Sprint backbone, I like the MCI backbone best ( most of the time )
If your on AOL , then don't even think of faulting web-broker
AOL is about the poorest of them all when it comes to ( brown-outs)
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So before I fault web broker, I check the backbone speed, as
normally I'm running 4 to 6 browsers at one time it only takes
me a minute to see if every thing else is slow.
If so I kill, connection, and dial in on another ISP.
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Also I'm often logged on to TWO servers at one time, one for my
IRA and one for my Regular account, I can click for quote
on one, then the next and hop back and forth, there are a lot
of tricks. To many to explain but then to I've been using it
from it's start.
While there have been times it's been frustrating
I also found that over 2/3rd of them was not knowing what was
going on.
All in all internet trading has it's limits, and you can run into
problems on any of them if trading gets hot and heavy, the whole
internet starts having brown outs.
The equipment in use nowadays
is being maxed beyond it's rated capacity during peak hours.
More video streaming and other just pure junk is fighting for
band width than ever before.
Band width; with superficial graphics, movies and other just pure junk, has backbone switches running as much as 160% capacity now.
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In short it's not always web brokers fault, 3/4th of the time it's in the backbone your ridding.
All the webbroker servers seem to be getting quotes from one
source , so when all servers get going fast , quotes can almost
come to a halt, in fact at times they do, there are some tricks
but I'm not sure I want to let all my trading secrets out,
to the public.
Jim |
