It's because of shills like you that we continue to post our real life experiences with eSignal. For anyone reading this, there have been massive problems with eSignal over the past couple of years and support has done nothing to solve them (just do a search here on ET by title using 'eSignal' as the search term). All we got from support was 'We acknowledge that we're having issues and we're working to fix them'. eSignal never once made any gesture to their customers in an effort to say 'we value your business and here's what we're going to do to keep it after repeatedly dropping the ball'.
If people are skeptical about any new releases or claims about improvements, it's totally understandable. I used the service for 2 years and finally gave up early this year.
Bottom line - eSignal is massively overpriced. If you want a retail data feed there are plenty of options out there at 70% of the cost of eSignal, and they have a 1-800 number (unlike eSignal) and they pick up the phone in the middle of the trading day, unlike eSignal, where the only way to get a rep is through Live Chat at 3:30 a.m. EST. Yes, you'll have problems at i.e. IQFeed as well, but at least you'll know you're not paying the extra money for the privilege of getting your lagging data (I have never used IQFeed).
If you want real data, CQG is the cheapest alternative, and it goes up from there.
