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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1997 Short Picks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hank who wrote (6210)	10/28/1997 4:53:00 PM
From: Jon Tara	Respond to of 9285

Hank, I'd suggest using orders7. It is almost always much faster than the other servers. There had to be a lot of lookie-loos clicking on Datek quotes and going "oh, my lord!" today. Get your quotes elsewhere. (But I actually had to shut down my quote software, because the time it took to update the tick charts at such a furious pace was hogging the CPU!) That said, I DO have an exceptionally good Internet connection. I use a cable modem connected to @Home through Cox.

To: Hank who wrote (6210)	10/29/1997 12:32:00 AM
From: Marconi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9285

Hank, November 1997 PCComputing p237 & p245 has tips for checking and improving connections to the Internet including: www.netcraft.com -- what kind of servers a site is running querying in a DOS window 'ping www.Server'sName.com' to check Server'sName status -- if you get numbers back, it is on; if timeout, the Server'sName server is down from a DOS window 'tracert www.ServerName.com' to get a detailed listing of the entire path from you to the Server'sName site. I haven't tried this yet, but the article claimed speed of connection is also measured. track connection speeds and time online with RAS+95 (www.lambsoftware.com) And relief is claimed to be coming in 3 to 5 years with Internet2 which is in test phase with 50 to 100 universities, some Fed agencies, computer and telecom firms, and Cisco Systems, AT&T, IBM, and Sun Microsystems. I2 is to increase information transfers from the present "snail's pace" to GigaPOP's (points of presence). If you have access through a test site (some businesses and libraries are laying backbone right now), I would think the speed would be of some advantage slipping into a busy site. The universities are expecting to be connected by the end of 1998. Have a student connection perhaps??? One killer app mentioned is live jam sessions with musicians worldwide. Progress reports at www.internet2.edu I don't know, but I would imagine if an internet path can be determined, there must be some utility that can funnel connections through stronger paths. I am a nubie at these adjustments. For all I know it might be done by the browser address line with all intervening servers named in the path to the target server. Maybe others could share some pointers that might help. Regards, MDR