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Non-Tech : Datek Brokerage $9.95 a trade -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve kennedy who wrote (7939)	4/17/1998 2:30:00 AM
From: Jon Tara	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 16892

Steve, when using DNS, you may experience a delay when initially accessing a site, while your ISP's DNS server gets the address. It may have it in cache, or it may have to get it from another nearby server, or even Datek's server. Or, it could be down (bummer) as many ISPs are not very good about making sure their DNS servers are running, don't use dedicated DNS servers, it could be running on a mail machine that just got attacked by spam and has run out of memory, etc. :) Once your PC has retrieved an address, though, it generally will be cached until either the cache fills up, you restart your OS, etc. I do plan to update Super Express next week. I hope to have it save some "preferences" using cookies, though I'm not sure that that will work if you save the HTML pages locally. In any case, I will at least be changing it so that you would only need to change the address in one place. Perhaps there will simply be a "server" drop-down on the page (and an easy place to edit the list). I'm open to suggestions as to how this should work.

To: steve kennedy who wrote (7939)	4/17/1998 3:07:00 PM
From: Lee^	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16892

Steve and Gorak, I just got this from Datek. The reason they moved the express server off of the MCI connection was many people were having problems with it. I had good results with the MCI connection but that must have been unusual. Also, we didn't know the whole story: Datek just added a third express server, on the MCI network, 208.140.149.2 - I don't know the "orders" number, but who cares, using the IP addresses is faster and I'll take any edge I can get. It appears their intentions were to have an express server on each of their three connections. Congratulations Datek! This is exactly the kind of service to the daytrader that we should be happy for.