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Strategies & Market Trends : Stock Attack II - A Complete Analysis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MSI who wrote (25303)	12/2/2001 12:35:20 PM
From: Mark L.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 52237

I had DirecPC for a couple of years and was more or less satisfied. Sure, there were occasional outages, sometimes of a few hours duration, and several of the functions didn't work, but by and large it was a good bargain. Then they switched over to a new network. This involved a whole new set of phone numbers and presumably new software and hardware for them. All hell broke loose. The new numbers were frequently busy, the outages were much more severe, sudden dropped signals became the norm, latency skyrocketed (so you could forget about using a direct-entry order system like Cybertrader), e-mail became ether-mail, and you would sometimes get this state of suspended animation on your computer. I kept the faith for a month (during which time I ran a $300 phone bill on the new "local" number) but then threw in the towel. I haven't tried the service again nor do I intend to. So theoretically they might have fixed the problems in the last couple of months. But, given the scope of the disaster, I wouldn't trust them to run the business adequately in the future. In particular, if you have any software which is latency-sensitive (such as a direct-entry trading platform), forget DirecPC. You will get much better results from a dial-up system like AOL.