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It's hard for anyone to help you troubleshoot what's going on unless they can see what the configurations are for your firewall/router. For example, if you have your firewall set on denying all packets in/out then you won't have a connection at all...are you able to surf the web (port 80)? are...

Magna has a good point, XP really is not that different from 2K right now until they released the next version which will include the CLR (common lanuage runtime) that enabled it to do all the .NET stuff Microsoft has been developing. But the UI differences is totally irrelavent because you can...

Anchorage, Alaska? Wow, how many traders are there? That's amazing, thought everyone there is a fisherman or something. I bet there's great scenary there, love to take a cruise there some day.

I agree, good resolution good monitor is crucial to trading...many traders don't even consider this until their eyes get all watery and squitty from looking at the monitor all day long. This is extremely bad because not only does it hurt your eyes, but also break your concentration from...

Sounds like some TSRs or other services are running that's draining your cycle time, dual Xeons are next to the best to Itaniums, you can't get better then that, especially for a single trader! Those are usually used for servers running multiple sections for a whole office. Think you should...

You will hardly find DSL faster than T1s (1.544mbps), nor cable modem if you measure averages. But the case for T1 is more clear when looking at reliability. DSL is pretty much out of the question if you live further than 2 miles from your CO, if you live within 1 mile there's still a question...

T3 would definitely open up the bandwidth on the firm side (if they have lots of remote traders coming into the network), but the slowest link is always going to be on the trader's side. So if you have a flaky DSL (maybe you're too far from the CO), or a sucky CableModem (because your neighbors...

yea, few firms will ever do that...most of the time they say downtime is part of the risk

Yea I agree, the practice always seem to be easier than the real thing

Anyone has hedgefund with Coast Asset Management?

That's a good idea

Going to one of their seminar this friday, I'll post my review here to let everyone know what I think of it.