Hmm, I had @home problems at first, but they have been better for months, particularly since they redid some CT servers. I think it was you who pointed out that CT work they did? Anyway, I get the same speed as cable modem people in the rest of the country now, from a good web site I get 70k/sec downloads, occasionally higher.
To find your route to dbc, open a dos window and type "tracert cm1.dbc.com" - I am wondering whether you will see a bunch of ibm.net servers, or alter-net servers. Dbc says they dont know how I come in the way I do, on their second T3 that they lease from uunet. But I never hit a single uunet server! The link was fantastic, but lately one hop along that path has trouble, it has been that way for weeks. Not dbc's fault of course.
Today some of my problems were explained. To quote from an email I recieved:
"Thanks for alerting us. You were right; I was wrong. I only
checked the trades at first. The trades are working, but the L1 bid/ask is down at one of our offsite locations; a T1 line problem. They are being taken offline. By coincidence, the first 3 servers you connected to this morning were all at that location. Your latest connection has now gone to here; that's why it's working now."
Since I reconnected to the main connection, instead of the offsite one, my stockedge prints are about 1/2 a second behind Datek's Streamer. That I can live with. Yesterday I actually was seeing buyers take out 3 or 4 mm's and then start selling again on Streamer before the FIRST buy showed on stockedge! The stockedge prices were ok though. Ever notice how you see a price ut and THEN a bunch of prints go by at the price that was?
They told me that it is possible the next beta might be our next week, we will see. I am looking forward to seeing ALL the bid/ask changes show in time and sales windows without having to force a repaint of the window. Funny, I had to post pictures of that on a web site for them to believe me too, they are starting to listen more lately :)
Thanks Colin, happy trading,
Lee |
