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Judging by your speedtests, the download speed is probably similar - but the ping is much better. I'm not sure how to check what the ping would be from here to the DAX, or HSI server etc.. but if you show me how I can check for you.
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The big issue i have is when i do my ping test, i lose packets, the data gets lost somewhere. I think TH had a list of IP addresses for CQG servers, i've lost mine. I never tested Singapore, only Chicago. The packet loss means that it will not complete the test at all:bad:




I had this in Harbin, i know exactly what you mean. I might use it for the house wifi....


Actually i'm looking at renting a serviced office near my home in Morningside, so I'll be hooked into the net there, with a hard line. At home, I'll look into the options again for that street. I'm really interested in working away from home, actually going to work and coming back when I'm done etc...We plan on building a house eventually, then renting out the THouse...at that point i'll be able to design an office....next to the wine cellar
 

The download speeds are largely irrelevant to your local host server. What effects trading performance the most is ping times or latency. In Oz on CQG data they have their servers located in Sydney (as do all others IB, TT etc) and that will be where you need to test to.

Best way is to find the IP address of the data and order servers and ping them to see performance. Here is CQGs,
http://www.cqg.com/Docs/CQGNETTechSpec.pdf

here is what I am getting to the Sydney servers first test and to London second test.



And this is the speed of my connection,


Still the biggest problem in Oz is you are close to 1 full second behind those located in the same country!
 
Here are two tests, the second was actually worked...the total loss is what usually happens..both are Singapore
 

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VS, can you do a ping test to the Sydney CQG server from Brissy for me
 
darkhorse70 said:
haha "the gamers" . Too much WOW benders
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The US has its Netflix to suck out the bandwidth, China has a millions of online gamers to suck out the bandwidth, every night from about 8 pm
 
CanOz said:
The US has its Netflix to suck out the bandwidth
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Same thing in Oz, internet services suffered huge slowdowns when Netflix was introduced last year. Our local exchange ground to a halt between 3:30pm (kids knock off from school) and 11pm before Telstra upgraded it a few months later.
 
captain black said:
Same thing in Oz, internet services suffered huge slowdowns when Netflix was introduced last year. Our local exchange ground to a halt between 3:30pm (kids knock off from school) and 11pm before Telstra upgraded it a few months later.
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Did you notice any issues in execution or data receiving?
 
CanOz said:
Did you notice any issues in execution or data receiving?
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Yeh, there were issues with more frequent dropouts (IB's TWS disconnecting more often) and ping times were a lot higher. I trade during the day so most of the time it wasn't an issue but after about 3:30 the net was almost unusable for a couple of months. I switched to the NextG network in the evenings to trade the European session. Ping times on NextG were better that time of the day than the ADSL connection. Not ideal, but it was around the time I made the switch to the FESX from the DAX so higher pings weren't as much of an issue given how much thicker the book is on the FESX.

The popularity of Netflix caught ISP's by surprise, they all had issues. Most of them had them sorted out after a couple of months. I live in a small country town with an exchange that was already close to over-capacity, Netflix brought it to a grinding halt.

We had planned to move to Tassie a few years ago, partly because of the early FTTH NBN rollout in a lot of the towns. We had/have family health issues which are keeping us here so sadly were stuck with ADSL and copper for the foreseeable future.:bad:
 
CanOz said:
VS, can you do a ping test to the Sydney CQG server from Brissy for me
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So now thanks to TH and yourself, I know how to test ping using CMD. Now just teach me how to trade the Dax and that should be enough for the week I'd say!
 
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So now thanks to TH and yourself, I know how to test ping using CMD. Now just teach me how to trade the Dax and that should be enough for the week I'd say!
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Thanks for that, not too bad at all.

Re the Dax, i thought you'd be interested in the spreads, not the outrights
 
Well,happy to say that we are in our place in Brisbane for our first night....tonight. Been here since Wednesday morning running around for stuff to get settled. Love the weather!
 
Connected....now to put everything together
 

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Really happy with the connectivity here, my charts load faster than ever before....lots of work to do yet, will pick up a couple more 22s this weekend as well.
 

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Well I'm debugging this week. Working on fixing up my NT issue, which has become worse since I've been running NT here in Brissy. It seems it is indeed the connection quality, according to support. I've requested AMP to change my data servers to Sydney, so Monday i should see an improvement in TT and NT. At the moment i cannot even load TT, the connection to Chicago is worse than China through the VPN.
 
Very envious of your setup CanOz looking awesome. Hopefully you fix that data issue.

Do you know the IP address of the server/s you're connecting to? There are tools you can use to trace the route from your PC to server to find bottle necks or ****ty links.

Btw are all those monitors connected to one PC if so what gfx card are you running?
 
Yeah I ran some tests today and my pings to Sydney are fine, we'll within a practical range.

I'll trouble shoot some more on Monday, hopefully with Sydney servers.

The last problem I had today was only getting level II data into my HKFE indices....no prints, only depth

Yeah I've got six screens on my tower and one on my laptop....I'll see on that goes but I can get a vertical stand for $60 that might be handy for news....

I've got two graphics cards, one is specifically for financial applications, supporting 4 screens, the other one is just a cheap $100 card with dvi and vga ports...

I'll find the specs of the 4 screen card but apparently it was easier to obtain in China than elsewhere and they could not find me another one.....
 

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Nice set up. Wouldn't the 6 screens quite easily topple over? I can see it happening on a missed trade when you hit the desk in disgust.

Also.... is that a fire extinguisher? Workplace health and safety? Did you buy those monitors in China and they come with a free fire extinguisher in case they blow up?
 
CanOz said:
Yeah I ran some tests today and my pings to Sydney are fine, we'll within a practical range.
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Just ping? You should do a tracert/packet test to see where the packets are being lost on the way to the server... You can have high packet loss and a low ping
 
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