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To: Thomas Sterner who wrote (4295)	12/14/1998 9:48:00 PM
From: LastShadow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 43080

Slow performance dogs biggest online brokers Online brokerage sites operated by E-Trade Group and Charles Schwab ranked last among 20 in an analysis of e-brokers' availability and online performance. E-Trade had an average success rate downloading all the content of 92.8 percent, and Schwab scored 97 percent, according to a report by Keynote Systems. E-Trade delivered its home page, on average, in 13 seconds, while Schwab took 27 seconds during the period measured, last week. Top-performing brokers on the Net were Web Street and Waterhouse, which delivered their pages in about three seconds, and were accessible more than 99.5 percent of the times tested. Keynote said it will monitor the 20 largest online brokerage firms and publish the daily and weekly results on its Web site (http://www.keynote.com/measures/brokers). yes, for that much more time its too expensive