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I've ordered DSL. From some previous posts it seems as if 640Kb/96Kb will be enough - that's $39.99 per month. I don't want to skimp here - for a simple trader using 2 or 3 quote windows and tickers, plus some charting S/W all on 2 monitors, will I get any benefit by upgrading to, say...

Rtharp, When all's said and done, I suppose I can only blame myself for my current situation. When I purchased the Compaq several months ago, I was trading out of an office and was not looking for anything immediate to trade remotely. Still, at the time I thought that trading from home was a...

Thanks, bbb. I'm also tempted to go no-name this time - the only difference is that Compaq has an 800 number to tell me that their computer doesn't do this or support that.

I think we're all agreed upon that one monitor is not sufficient for trading. I've been wrestling with video card, BIOS, operating system and other issues in order to configure my Compaq Presario 5000 to a dual monitor system (see my earlier post). I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that it...

Honda, what was your original graphics configuration, what card did you add, and what is the configuration now? Was it all done by trial and error? I've posted my question on the Compaq board, but they just refer me to a link to a Microsoft document about Windows 98 multi monitor support.

Thanks cag and Baron. Will probably get Win2000.

I have a Compaq Presario 5000 PIII-866MHz, running on Windows Millenium, which has an integrated Intel 82810E graphics controller (AGP). I wish to configure my PC with dual monitors (one desktop). I only have PCI slots free, and was wondering : (1) if it was possible to add a PCI graphics card...