Pro's and con's of using a wifi connection to trade?

[SunTrader]

Relatively speaking it's still "messing around". My mouse lasts 5 years without doing anything.

Same with my wireless one, except for battery change twice a year. Which obviously takes all of 10 seconds, if that.

 

[ThaddeusFinch]

Over the years I have heard people say "Never trade over a wifi connection". I recently switched internet providers and am thinking of getting rid of my home router and just using the ISP wireless connection.

All my devices (Desktop, TV, Printer and other devices) are capable of using wifi. It is a secure home connection. Is there any reason specifically why I shouldn't trade over a wireless connection?

I think one of the reasons why some traders not to use wifi for their trading is that wifi connections can have higher latency and lower speed compared to wired connections. this delay can impact the the speed of order execution and data update and real time trading. For such strategies that require quick reaction, a wired connection may be preferred.

 

[virtusa]

Relatively speaking it's still "messing around". My mouse lasts 5 years without doing anything.

The reason why I switched to wireless is the fact, that if I put my cursor anywhere on my charts, once I remove my hand from the wired mouse, the cursor moves and is not at the exact location anymore where I want it to be. With a wireless mouse I don't have that problem because there is no cable that moves the mouse after removing my hand. It was very irritating for me.It takes me 10 sec to not have that problem anymore.
Today you have to change maybe every six months the battery. Years ago you needed to do that every few days. Energy consumption was reduced drastically.

 

[d08]

The reason why I switched to wireless is the fact, that if I put my cursor anywhere on my charts, once I remove my hand from the wired mouse, the cursor moves and is not at the exact location anymore where I want it to be. With a wireless mouse I don't have that problem because there is no cable that moves the mouse after removing my hand. It was very irritating for me.It takes me 10 sec to not have that problem anymore.
Today you have to change maybe every six months the battery. Years ago you needed to do that every few days. Energy consumption was reduced drastically.

That's a cheap mouse problem though. I got myself a gaming mouse because they're usually higher quality, it's somewhat heavy and the wire of course is thin and light.

But it still fails at some point

Everything fails at some point.

 

[spy]

Everything fails at some point.

I guess that's the point, so instead of just trying to prevent failure, it's important to plan for some kind of contingency/recovery IMHO.

Naturally, this is a balancing act. And, the wired v. wireless debate is somewhat interesting to me because it, to a very rough degree, reflects a person's risk/reward profile.

I'm curious to ask the die-hard wired folks, it's accepted that a server will generally be wired, but those who use wires throughout their workstations... do you also disable your screensaver?

There has been an occasion or two where I've been reading (mostly docs, but for traders it could be charts) and my screen-saver kicked in. It pissed me off! Lol, but I still leave it enabled (-:

P.S. This one's my favorite:

 

[SunTrader]

I guess that's the point, so instead of just trying to prevent failure, it's important to plan for some kind of contingency/recovery IMHO.

Naturally, this is a balancing act. And, the wired v. wireless debate is somewhat interesting to me because it, to a very rough degree, reflects a person's risk/reward profile.

I'm curious to ask the die-hard wired folks, it's accepted that a server will generally be wired, but those who use wires throughout their workstations... do you also disable your screensaver?

There has been an occasion or two where I've been reading (mostly docs, but for traders it could be charts) and my screen-saver kicked in. It pissed me off! Lol, but I still leave it enabled (-:

P.S. This one's my favorite:

Stopped using a screensaver of any sort long ago ... and have never had burn-in whatsoever.
I do allow monitors options of sleep-mode set to one hour but rarely I'm ever away from my screens that long without just shutting whole system down instead.

 

[d08]

I guess that's the point, so instead of just trying to prevent failure, it's important to plan for some kind of contingency/recovery IMHO.

Naturally, this is a balancing act. And, the wired v. wireless debate is somewhat interesting to me because it, to a very rough degree, reflects a person's risk/reward profile.

I'm curious to ask the die-hard wired folks, it's accepted that a server will generally be wired, but those who use wires throughout their workstations... do you also disable your screensaver?

There has been an occasion or two where I've been reading (mostly docs, but for traders it could be charts) and my screen-saver kicked in. It pissed me off! Lol, but I still leave it enabled (-:

P.S. This one's my favorite:

Haven't used a screensaver for decades. Screen will switch off after some 15 minutes of no activity.
Screen savers were for CRT screens to stop burn in. No such issue with LCD screens. Do you actually still use CRT?

 

[MarkBrown]

I'm curious to ask the die-hard wired folks, it's accepted that a server will generally be wired, but those who use wires throughout their workstations... do you also disable your screensaver?

i don't sleep why should my equipment.

 

[spy]

Screen savers were for CRT screens to stop burn in. No such issue with LCD screens.

If this is true, then how come there are always phones listed on ebay with burn-in, shadow, etc? Anyway...

Do you actually still use CRT?

No, I don't still use a CRT Are you making fun of me? I resent that! Lol

But I still like a cool screensaver and having fun! In addition, phosphor is one that allows you to display custom text. I sometimes have a few different system displays in front of me (laptop, thin-client, and workstation), so I use it to show some system info while I'm not actively on that box (until full screen blanking/hibernation kicks in or I switch over to that machine).

For some displays I also like to create a "poor man's animated wallpaper effect" by running the xscreensaver program directly (rather than via the daemon). Then, I also run unclutter and devilspie (v1). Unclutter will hide the mouse pointer after inactivity and devilspie helps apply some GUI effect (transparency via transset) on the xscreensaver program every time it's launched.

It makes for a slick presentation where your root window "wallpaper" gets animated (trippy bro). And, without having to include the entire kitchen sink of something like KDE. I'm a minimalist wrt GUI, but there is still some cool "eye candy" I appreciate. When I was younger I loved GUIs and 3d graphics. Now I'm far more jaded and picky...

Anyway, here's some of the config I'm talking about:

/etc/devilspie/opacity.ds:

( if
    ( contains ( application_name ) "from the XScreenSaver" )
    ( begin
      ( spawn_async (str "transset -i " (window_xid) " 0.6" ))
      ))

then fork something like this from your startup somewhere, mine's in ~/.config/openbox/autostart:

#!/bin/bash

# https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unclutter#unclutter-xfixes
export DISPLAY=":0"
pgrep -fla xscreensaver | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill
pgrep unclutter || unclutter -root &
while [ 1 ]; do
    PRG=$(echo "blinkbox blocktube bouboule boxfit cloudlife cubicgrid cynosure" | xargs -n1 | shuf -n1)
    /usr/lib/xscreensaver/$PRG
done

Finally, remember to force the xscreensaver z-order to the bottom, again, I use openwin so I add the following to my ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml:

    <application title="*from the XScreenSaver*">
      <layer>below</layer>
      <decor>no</decor>
      <maximized>true</maximized>
    </application>

P.S. you should be running a window compositor for transset to work (I still use compton). It's old, I know.... get off my lawn you lousy kids!

 

[d08]

If this is true, then how come there are always phones listed on ebay with burn-in, shadow, etc? Anyway...



No, I don't still use a CRT Are you making fun of me? I resent that! Lol

But I still like a cool screensaver and having fun! In addition, phosphor is one that allows you to display custom text. I sometimes have a few different system displays in front of me (laptop, thin-client, and workstation), so I use it to show some system info while I'm not actively on that box (until full screen blanking/hibernation kicks in or I switch over to that machine).

For some displays I also like to create a "poor man's animated wallpaper effect" by running the xscreensaver program directly (rather than via the daemon). Then, I also run unclutter and devilspie (v1). Unclutter will hide the mouse pointer after inactivity and devilspie helps apply some GUI effect (transparency via transset) on the xscreensaver program every time it's launched.

It makes for a slick presentation where your root window "wallpaper" gets animated (trippy bro). And, without having to include the entire kitchen sink of something like KDE. I'm a minimalist wrt GUI, but there is still some cool "eye candy" I appreciate. When I was younger I loved GUIs and 3d graphics. Now I'm far more jaded and picky...

Anyway, here's some of the config I'm talking about:

/etc/devilspie/opacity.ds:

( if
    ( contains ( application_name ) "from the XScreenSaver" )
    ( begin
      ( spawn_async (str "transset -i " (window_xid) " 0.6" ))
      ))

then fork something like this from your startup somewhere, mine's in ~/.config/openbox/autostart:

#!/bin/bash

# https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unclutter#unclutter-xfixes
export DISPLAY=":0"
pgrep -fla xscreensaver | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill
pgrep unclutter || unclutter -root &
while [ 1 ]; do
    PRG=$(echo "blinkbox blocktube bouboule boxfit cloudlife cubicgrid cynosure" | xargs -n1 | shuf -n1)
    /usr/lib/xscreensaver/$PRG
done

Finally, remember to force the xscreensaver z-order to the bottom, again, I use openwin so I add the following to my ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml:

    <application title="*from the XScreenSaver*">
      <layer>below</layer>
      <decor>no</decor>
      <maximized>true</maximized>
    </application>

P.S. you should be running a window compositor for transset to work (I still use compton). It's old, I know.... get off my lawn you lousy kids!

I also use an Arch based distro btw.