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To: Tim Luke who wrote (5404)10/4/1998 6:39:00 PM
From: TraderAlan  Respond to of 12617
 
Tim,

Speed is NOT everything. Ten ISPs connecting at the same baud rate will give you 10 different performance levels. You need to know how often you hit dead zones (I never do, even at 28.8 with my Sprint connection). These are generated by how many users have to share the the same modems, the quality of switching equipment and sometimes your phone line. If you can't listen to clean music on a 28.8 through a Real Player connection, your ISP is not performing well.

IBM has a good rep but may be selling their Internet service from what I've read recently.

Alan



To: Tim Luke who wrote (5404)10/5/1998 10:05:00 AM
From: Ron  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 12617
 
For speed, I would recommend only ISDN or a cable modem. All else is too slow for serious trading.



To: Tim Luke who wrote (5404)10/6/1998 7:03:00 AM
From: Bill Field  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 12617
 
The issue of speed is a dynamic of access speed and RAM.

A 56K modem with 128MB of ram will process a trade faster than a
Cable Modem with 32MB.

Too much time is taken up moving data from ram to hard disk and back.



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