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To: Frederick Langford who wrote (24236)	11/6/1999 12:56:00 PM
From: marquis103	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108040

Since we're talking about brokerage houses, what does everyone think of A.B. Watley? I currently use MSDW which used to be Discover and Lombard, but rates are going up drastically at end of March. Watley gives you level 2, and pre and post market trading for about 20 bucks/trade if you trade at least 50 times. Their regular service is 9.95 per trade without L2. Just wondering what experience people have had with them. Russ

To: Frederick Langford who wrote (24236)	11/6/1999 1:37:00 PM
From: edkaiser	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108040

Frederick, this summer I bought a Gateway laptop and when I was about to go on our family vacation, I did not want to be away from the internet for very long, so I decided to go wireless. There was nothing special about my computer that would help, so I asked the Gateway people what to do. They said that I should go talk to a mobile phone company. Then I went to the company that I had a contract with and asked what I need to do and they said "You can use a lot of our phones that way, but we don't know how, and we don't know which ones, but if you'll pick out a few that you are interested in, then you can call our warehouse and they'll tell you if they'll work or not." I said "OK thanks," and went to the competitor. Asked them the same question and they said. "We have one phone that will do, it, it is the Qualcomm, and you'll need to buy a special PCMCIA modem, which we have in stock." I said, let me have it, and $400 and a service change later, I had a digital wireless phone that I used to connect my laptop to the internet whenever I wanted. i don't know how much this helps, except to say that it matters more which mobile phone you have than which laptop you have, and I am very pleased with the Qualcomm products (and the customer service I got when I needed help installing it.) Good luck; Ed

To: Frederick Langford who wrote (24236)	11/6/1999 3:20:00 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108040

Fred, you know you can always find the answers you are looking for on the "Daytraders Fundamentals Thread". It is one the most astute threads on SI , for getting answers about software, hardware, trading approaches on any level. Subject 28734 these guy are marvelously helpful, and some of the most knowledgble traders on SI.... :-) mars

To: Frederick Langford who wrote (24236)	11/7/1999 4:25:00 AM
From: WhatsUpWithThat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108040

but maybe I'd like a wireless Why, Fred? Are you prepared to spend the extra $$ on connect time? Are you that mobile during the day? If so, check out Ricochet by Metricom (MCOM is the stock <g>), which will give you better speed than a cell network. Haven't frankly dug super deep myself but this is a solid wireless data network, albeit not yet nationwide (getting there is their goal). Other than that, in laptops I believe in going for quality rather than price - they're more finicky than desktops - and do a lot of thinking about joystick (IBM, Toshiba, etc) vs trackpad (Dell, etc); this is not a small issue! Pay the extra for an active matrix screen rather than a DSTN - you won't regret it! And don't feel you have to have the FASTEST chip on the market; step it down a couple of points and you'll get much better bang for your buck. JMO, of course. WUWT

To: Frederick Langford who wrote (24236)	11/7/1999 10:40:00 AM
From: rdmsqito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108040

Fred- FWIW I have an IBM Thinkpad and I have been nothing but happy with it since I bought it. I think now they're offering a Celeron 400 for around $1600, more then ample speed. Only thing I've had to do was pop an extra 64meg of RAM in there. However, I spent about $250 for a cellular modem and the cable for my phone only to discover that I never get more then a 4800 baud connection, which is basically unusable (they neglected to tell me this when I bought it). I'm now anxiously awaiting my new Nokia 9000, which has web surfing and full e-mail capabilities. I think cellular web surfing or something like a PalmVII are the way to go for wireless- JMO.