I’ve been reading old threads about Bet Angel and broadband. The general feeling seems to be that latency is more important than raw speed.
I’m currently on 250 Mbps with Virgin. Thinking about cutting back to 125 Mbps and wondering if I’d notice any difference? I use Trader, so I only have one market open at a time. Has anyone cut back on internet speed in a similar fashion?
My contract expires in six weeks. This is less about the tenner I could save on the bill and more about being able to set up a new contract via the Virgin website with a single click, thus avoiding the tedious renegotiation ritual.
Broadband downgrade
I noticed no difference re BF when they upped mine from 50 to 250+ a long time ago, but Youtube videos did load noticeably faster. I'm also planning going back down in a few days. Higher might be useful for HD videos, streaming etc. but 125 should generally be fine anyway.
125Mbps is huge mate, you won't drop much in latency at all from that
much more important to have a stable connection
i had a friend;) who used to trade in countries all over the world on 20Mbps 4g sim via VPN and just had a separate provider (dif. tower network) 4g hotspot ready as backup in case the first dropped for a few sec (rare) ... he still made similar cash to being on fibre
much more important to have a stable connection
i had a friend;) who used to trade in countries all over the world on 20Mbps 4g sim via VPN and just had a separate provider (dif. tower network) 4g hotspot ready as backup in case the first dropped for a few sec (rare) ... he still made similar cash to being on fibre
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Lynskey888
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Thanks, everyone (and that includes eightbo’s friend!) Sounds like I’ll be safe to drop down.
If you are curious
To test it just open cmd prompt type "ping bbc.co.uk -t" (no quotes) and read the response times
After like 10 lines just take the average response time in ms and close the window
Do it again after the change from same machine, I wouldn't be surprised if you got very similar numbers
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ShaunWhite
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The megabits per second (Mbps) figure and latency (the time data takes to travel between you and the destination) are different things. One is data transfer capacity and the other is response time. Pretty much any modern broadband connection has more than enough bandwidth for trading.
Latency won't normally be quoted by the provider because it depends on where you're connecting to. It can range from a few milliseconds to tens of milliseconds or more, depending on location and routing. Human reaction time is roughly 200 ms at best, so for manual trading, differences of a few milliseconds in network latency are largely irrelevant. It usually matters more with automation and people try to get their latency as low as possible.
Latency won't normally be quoted by the provider because it depends on where you're connecting to. It can range from a few milliseconds to tens of milliseconds or more, depending on location and routing. Human reaction time is roughly 200 ms at best, so for manual trading, differences of a few milliseconds in network latency are largely irrelevant. It usually matters more with automation and people try to get their latency as low as possible.