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To: Jon Tara who wrote (939)	2/5/2001 12:34:31 AM
From: Simon Thornington	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1001

That's the key. I don't yet feel as though I want to commit to a dedicated line to a particular broker, all though there are exceedingly good reasons to do so. One, for instance, being losing several thousand dollars because the Sprintlink-UUNet access point going down to a misconfiguration. :) I don't begrudge these incidents, but they are part of the price I pay for not having installed a dedicated line to my broker. $900/mo is not a great price to pay if your trading patterns have a higher risk of loss due to Internet unreliability. Although, having made that commitment to a broker, it makes it all the more sour when they fail to live up to their end of the bargain... Cheers, Simon.

To: Jon Tara who wrote (939)	2/5/2001 12:38:46 AM
From: Mark Davis	Respond to of 1001

Yes, in principle I agree that standard DSL service is not as 'reliable' as what is promised from Frame Relay. As a practical matter, when my DSL provider is not having server problems :-), there are few interruptions in service that are internet related, and latency is quite small 99% of the time. This costs me $49 a month and its available even cheaper from other providers. As far as actual response time to trades, there is no practical difference in performance, as I get instantaneous fills and cancels. My orders show up on L2 in under a second, using 3 different firms. Now, is Frame Relay at $900 (10k a year) a good for 100% uptime without any 'internet issues'? If so, and you are a heavy player, then this may be a worthy investment. For the typical daytrader it's overkill.