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To: E. Davies who wrote (2583)	6/8/1999 11:35:00 PM
From: wily	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3216

Eric, I'm curious how you determined the 1/10 bandwidth figure. Also, do you have any idea how they accomplished it? Thanks, wily

To: E. Davies who wrote (2583)	6/12/1999 1:03:00 PM
From: John Ficquette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3216

Eric, Just one more quick comment about data feed reliability. I have a cable modem, which I feel may not be as reliable as a conventional modem. The reason I suspect this the nature of the service. With a cable modem you have to use the facilities of a cable company and ISP. Cable companies have never been known for their service, or reliability. I am in a chat room with 75 to 100 people on the same real tick data feed and the outages are not inclusive of everyone. I suspect that the outages are mostly ISP and cable company problems then real tick or Cybertrader. A 56k modem works great for real tick. Actually there is not that much data that comes through relative to what a modem is designed to handle. When my cable modem is down I use a 24k phone connection to access the feed and it works fine. I have 3-5 market minders and 8-10 charts on two monitors so I probably would stress the system if anyone would. Hope this helps!! John