In South Africa & having problems

Hi all
I am in SA for a 3 month stretch, but when connecting through a local ISP with my UK laptop, I'm having a couple of problems.

Firstly I dont seem to be able to open charts properly using InteractiveBrokers' TWS platform, the chart opens, but very few bars. I was thinking that this might be related to slow local telephone connections. Ideas anyone ?

Secondly I can collect my pop emails, but can't seem to send them. Could this be due to my location ? Or maybe I have to change my Outlook Express settings ?

Any advice is appreciated !

rog1111

Hi Rog

For email you'll need to change your outgoing mail server (smtp) to that of your isp in SA.
In outlook, it's under tools/accounts, then select your mail account, then properties/servers.

What's the weather like?

Hi rog, don't know about the e-mail, but I have had similar problems with charts when the connection was slow and congested in countries where the internet wasn't all that.

jimvt

It works ! thanks vm for your help

rog1111

jimvt said:

Hi Rog

For email you'll need to change your outgoing mail server (smtp) to that of your isp in SA.
In outlook, it's under tools/accounts, then select your mail account, then properties/servers.

What's the weather like?

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During our first week here in Durban, it has varied between 26 and 31 degrees, with a fair amount of humidity, but very little rain, & the sea is warm too. I don't know why I even bothered bringing long trousers !

However, I'd feel better about all of this though if I had a decent Internet connection, after all I'm supposed to be managing clients funds, but I'm working on it !

Cheers

rog1111

jimvt said:

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roguetrader

Were you using IB at the time ?

rog1111

roguetrader said:

Hi rog, don't know about the e-mail, but I have had similar problems with charts when the connection was slow and congested in countries where the internet wasn't all that.

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