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Strategies & Market Trends : DAYTRADING Fundamentals -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ynot who wrote (1918)	7/16/1999 11:56:00 AM
From: TheKelster	Respond to of 18137

This is a response to a post on the stock picking site. I have heard that Explorer 5.0 still has lots of problems. I use Explorer 4.72??? something or other. It 4.0 with the upgrade stuff. I have been in the computer industry for about 15 years. I prefer a local ISP for basic reason that you are closer to the source. Meaning: Whatever equipment an ISP has it is mostly the same whether you are local or global. My local ISP however does not have to scale up to be ready for "six million" subscribers and I don't have to compete with them for bandwidth. The locals are dependent upon taking care of the local customer for their bread and butter. It you get a business person who is serious about this they are going to outperform the global guy every time. It is no real trick to provide good connect service. I use two up to date computers (400's, 128 ram, graphics, modems, etc.). I run two phone lines and have two different ISP accounts with the same ISP and a backup account with another. I use Datek, Bullsession, IQC charts, and a few other misc. providers. I get consistent 50K to 53K connections. My computers probably log 16 hours a day online between me and the family. I have virtually zero kick-offs. I have virtually zero problems with computer crashes or lock ups. Here is the curious thing. I will be sitting there watching stuff roll across the screen and suddenly everything comes to a slow crawl or stops on one computer. My other computer is merrily rolling along. Or, I go to place a trade and the computer goes to hour-glass mode. I can roll over to the other keyboard (I stay logged into my trading account on both computers all day) and type in the order and bingo - it goes right through. I get confirmation, check my account, go back to the slow computer and it still isn't moving. I can "stop" the attempt to connect and in a few minutes it goes back to normal. Sometimes I will place the order on one computer and it hangs up. I move over to the other, check to see the status of the order, and there it is. I have already bought or sold. Meanwhile, the computer I placed the order on is doing the hour-glass. Sometimes Datek's Streamer is flowing in one and running slow in the other, go figure. Having two has made all the difference for me in trading. It used to be somebody on the net would jam up or my one computer would barf. I never knew where the problem was. Now that I have two setups I can make an instant check. I know whether it is my computer, my ISP, my phone line, whatever. Life is so much better with two. I would hate to have to go back to one because when you can't get through you never know what the problem is. Very Frustrating. KK