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Gold/Mining/Energy : Day trading in Canada -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JAS who wrote (1460)	11/20/1998 10:50:00 PM
From: Buckey	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4467

JAS - Scotia ONLINE SUCKS. Does anyone use Scotia online with a cable or other high speed connection???? if so does the site work quicker??????. It is so slow I do not even do my banking on it - Occasionally I will enter some trades at night but almost never for quick trades. It sound like GL is that slow too One other question. I am on the computer a lot but have no idea on pricing these days. I own a compaq presario 2200 - 180 MHZ, 16 MB, 8x 33.6 I want to upgrade to 64 MB and add in the 8 whatever video card. A: can it be done?? B; roughly what should I pay

To: JAS who wrote (1460)	11/21/1998 12:22:00 AM
From: Wayne K	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 4467

Jim I use TD WebBroker and experience the same frustrating time out problems you have with Scotia, there may be a solution!, (and I say maybe). A short review; Keep It Alive is a very simple program you can use to keep your ISP from pulling the plug due to inactivity. Available from the system tray, it pings a single remote server of your choosing at an interval of your choosing. An Options dialog is available for you to establish those settings and optionally enable audio verification. Keep It Alive is very easy to use and better yet -- it's free! I downloaded this program from PC Magazine Online, you might try this link if your interested in trying this out. hotfiles.zdnet.com I had only a brief chance to try this program out on Wednesday before I left town and it appeared to me at the time I was able to stay logged on longer than usual. Now I qualify that statement by saying I never had the chance to actually time the durations with or without the help of the utility. I hope to look into the program in more depth when I return home. There is also another program that claims to do the same "Stay Connected", it is also available on PC Mag's web site, these two programs are Win 95, 98&NT compatible, apparently there are others but do not support NT (which I use). I'd like to hear from anyone who has or will be trying out similar utilities. Best of luck