Please to help with some advice

Quote from tenthousandmen:

"... dialup? :D NO it is not enough bandwidth. open task manager and see how much bandwidth trading takes.
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Oh, I have. During "routine traffic", found data to be only 10KB/s much of the time... on eSignal, tracking about 200 issues in real-time. (Not a typo... "KB/s".)

Dialup is easily capable of handling trading/data requirements for most ETers.

Another alternative is just to be able to call the trade desk if your internet connection goes down and you don't want to hold until it comes back up.
 
Quote from WinstonTJ:



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I think your best bet would be to keep your cable subscriber's plan and then if you think you need something else try a $30/month DSL line. Pay up the extra $5-$15 for sDSL vs. aDSL. Or just get a wireless tether plan.

In my experience it takes up to 30-45 seconds for a router with load balancing or failover to switch over (1-2 seconds for regular business class with static IPs, etc. but longer for residential/retail with dynamic IP). In 30-45 seconds you can be on the phone with your broker or at least half way there and ready to get flat.

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Excellent advice. Regular retail routers with dual WAN inputs don't instantly switch connections. 30-45 seconds is being nice. It could take even longer.

In my home, my primary is Time Warner Cable. I also have Verizon DSL as backup (and the DSL also runs my VOIP phones). When my cable goes down, I switch to DSL using wifi.
 
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