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To: Colin Cody who wrote (4415)	4/3/1999 10:07:00 AM
From: CatLady	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7382

Colin, "sounds like these problems of "no account" and "invalid fields" and also one other problem I have - the screen text fields "going blank", e.g. the Level II will still have the color bars but the black text is missing, are not common with EVERYONE." I ran MBT on a slower machine than yours, a P166MMX, without seeing that color bars/no text thing. But I have 128 meg ram. "No account" happens rarely, usually I wait 2 or 3 minutes and restart Realtick and all is well.

To: Colin Cody who wrote (4415)	4/3/1999 2:41:00 PM
From: Bill Green	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7382

Colin I have never had the invalid fields problem during the trading day. Used to run RT from a 166mhz laptop with 80 megs of ram and now use a 300mhz AMD with 128 megs, both on some real crappy internet connections. My feelings and best guess on this are that you need more ram. FWIW, I get data backups on occasions but still don't get the above error. ie I can get the information from the lvl2 into the OES albeit it is sometimes rather out of synch with the current best bid/offer. Hope this helps BIll

To: Colin Cody who wrote (4415)	4/10/1999 7:15:00 PM
From: Gary Wisdom	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 7382

Colin, specifically re: cable modem access I have a Mediaone cable modem (only one way since they still don't have broadband where I live) It loses packets every other minute. IMHO, this is a major cause of the problems you are having. I am fed up with it, but they also do not have DSL here either (NO, I DO NOT LIVE IN THE MOUNTAINS AND MAKE MOONSHINE FOR A LIVING <ggg>) I use Cybertrader too, and that is really unstable too. I am pulling my hair out. I don't think it's my machine as I have a 300 mhz with 128 MB RAM etc etc. I really think cable modem access sucks. The minute DSL comes out, I'm switching. Unless of course someone tells me that DSL is worse (please don't). Good luck.