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To: Larry Shelor who wrote (4559)	7/18/1999 1:33:00 PM
From: wily	Respond to of 110642

Gonna be a lot of hell mixed in with 56K. The system just isn't designed for it.

To: Larry Shelor who wrote (4559)	7/18/1999 1:36:00 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110642

"i hope that is not meant to be sarcastic." it wasn't.

To: Larry Shelor who wrote (4559)	7/18/1999 1:42:00 PM
From: wily	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110642

The biggest data draws are opening new pages and signing on. And dragging a new symbol to a Market Maker window, especially when this window has multiple links to other windows like charts and time&sales. Next biggest draw is high tick-volume stocks. These things will tax your connection through-put -- your computer has enough resources to keep up with it. I've heard a good suggestion recently for the connectivity-impaired: Get Q-Charts from Quote.com and the order-entry-only service from CyberTrader. Don't know how this has worked out for anyone. Q-Charts delivers the same amount of data in what some say is a superior format while using a fraction of the bandwidth that RealTick uses. I also saw some problems posted on the Q-Charts thread (with the djia index quotes) so you might want to check there. w