IB server ping time

[white17]

I wish I had some of the problems others have out there. I'm in interior Alaska and my pings are consistently between 1700 and 3000 ms. It doesn't seem to matter much as I don't trade stocks only options.

 

[def]

Quote from Ninja:

Some months ago Def said that TWS allways connects through the .com server regardless of your settings...

If I said that I was not correct. We try to optimize your speed by determining which server to connect you to. ie. someone funding in HK dollars signing up for HK futures will be put on the US server. If you are euro funded and trade mostly european products then you'll be assigned to the euro server when you sign up. Natually this is an inexact science and if you want to change servers, send me a PM and I'll tell you where to direct the request.

 

[x-or]

If it was in this old thread http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9402, Def never said that TWS always connect through the US server. He just said that we couldn't change the server config by ourself. The post above confirms this.

 

[Lobster]

Quote from x-or:

The post above confirms this.

I see.

 

[nitro]

Quote from Bsulli:

Another couple of freeware products that work well are pingplotter.com and analogx.com Both are continous trace products. The problem with pings is being part of the ICMP protocol within IP is it's treated as very low priority by routers and switches per the IETF)Internet engineering task force) RFC(Request for comment) that it comes from. You can have heavy traffic running across the router but if it's busy it isn't required to respond to pings at all if the service window is missed. I leave pingplotter running most of the time in the background. I cross one of ATT's peering routers in Dallas to get out and on any given evening there are times that traceroute will show period of 2500miliseconds getting across it when it's heavily loaded but won't respond to pings and traceroute is flowing across it(Thank goodness it's not like that during trading hours). Pings was always intended to be a simple alive or dead tool for basic time measurements. Also many websites and routers are set to filter pings and not respond. Also something to keep in mind is many preformance problems on your ISP connection can be DNS lookup problems as well.



Fwiw.

Bsulli

This dude knows what he is talking about.

nitro

 

[nitro]

Quote from SubEtha:

www.visualroute.com

15 day shareware.

nice! Thanks for the link.

nitro

 

[Ninja]

Quote from x-or:

If it was in this old thread http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9402, Def never said that TWS always connect through the US server. He just said that we couldn't change the server config by ourself. The post above confirms this.

Yes you are right. I remembered it a bit wrong. He said that people with base currency USD allways connect through the US server, regardless of their settings in TWS.

 

[Ninja]

Quote from def:



If I said that I was not correct. We try to optimize your speed by determining which server to connect you to. ie. someone funding in HK dollars signing up for HK futures will be put on the US server. If you are euro funded and trade mostly european products then you'll be assigned to the euro server when you sign up. Natually this is an inexact science and if you want to change servers, send me a PM and I'll tell you where to direct the request.

Yes you are right. See my above post.
However I still find it strange to let the user make a choice during TWS installation if he wants to connect through US or CH or HK and then connect him through a server of IB's choice anyway.

 

[def]

my quote above is wrong as well - hk$, hk fut should be = hk server.

the choice for which server i believe has to do with firewalls and since i know nothing about setting up firewalls, I can't specify the reason . at least that is what i think my answer was when i asked the same question ages ago. in the end it normally doesn't make a huge difference except for the system reset times.