24/6 stable Internet connection for Forex

[Pentaquark]

Hi everyone,

within the next months I will let my mechanical system papertrade a Forex demo account. Since I pretty often need a datapoint for my model to calculate a signal, I mainly worry about the stability of my internet connection.

What would you suggest which infrastructure to use? Internetprovider (Germany)? With which router do you have good experiences?

All answers are appreciated!
Pentaquark

 

[JTrader]

Will any ADSL connection be 100% dependable? I very much doubt it.

 

[shadowninja]

I usually have my home broadband connection on all day, with about 6 hours off to rest (everything, not just standby) and never have probs once I'm connected. So, planned reboots/shutdowns might be a way of minimising risk. Also, have a telephone number and all account details handy should you need to call your broker to close a position.

 

[JTrader]

I was having phone line prbs a few weeks back. BT came out to investigate. They ended up replacing the wire that runs from the main overhead line, and into the house (this was about 30 years old). They also replaced the wall socket etc. This has improved the speed & reliability slightly of my BB, and the phone line is now working correctly. I still doubt that any regular ADSL connection would be able to run 24/5 without disconnecting a few times per day though.

 

[TheBramble]

I usually have my home broadband connection on all day, with about 6 hours off to rest (everything, not just standby).

Not such a good idea. Your ISP will automatically be rating your usage over each 24 hour period. You'll be downgraded to the extent that you're not using it. Friend of mine did this and turned everything off when she went on holiday for 3 weeks. Came back, and all she had was a 1200 baud connection. Took her ages to rate it back up to the full 8MB.

 

[dcraig1]

There are so many variables involved that any advice you get is likely to be little more than urban myth.

I have just moved house and after two weeks wait to get dsl installed, I've had another week of endless calls to technical support at the ISP to get the thing working and even now it isn't reliable. So far I've tried 4 different modems (two of my own and two supplied by ISP). Of the four a Siemens 4200 has proved by far the best and is probably the cheapest, but I have no reason to assume that in another location this modem would be superior or even as good as the others. In fact a search of some DSL message boards in Aus turned up complaints about this modem when used with the same ISP as I am subscribed to !

The thing is your DSL will depend on distance to the exchange, characteristics of the wiring, possibly the vendor and model of the DSLAM that you are connected to at the exchange, the set up of the DSLAM at the exchange, the modem you use and so on.

The only thing you can do if you have problems is harass the ISP technical support until they are resolved and attempt to provide the best information to tech support to help them in this.