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Non-Tech : MB TRADING -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rick Faurot who wrote (2592)	12/6/1998 4:35:00 PM
From: funk	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7382

There is no mystery to this issue. A simple trace route reveals all. What Ross has always said in the chatroom is that the UUnet (alternet) backbone and the IBM backbone are the two cleanest routs into Chicago. Anyone who is looking at a new ISP should ask to see a trace route to one of the price servers during market hours before signing up. IU agree with Dan, you can use any isp that hasn't over committed there bandwidth. There are two ways you get screwed: ONE. The isp uses MCI in Chicago, just go shoot yourself in the foot right now its much less painful <ggg> TWO. The isp is popular in your town. This means you will have a much greater chance of getting cruddy through put right at you isp's end of the line. A trader should be very comfortable with diagnosing an internet connection on a regular basis. I am using ISDN with a LOCAL ISP that utilizes UUnet in Chicago. I get there in 8 hops. <gggg> No packet loss. My limiting factor now is my CPU. funk Rick if tim does a tracert and ping with his ADSL connection, you should be able to know right away how reliable a link you would have. funk