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Yes, much better for me now. I max out the 100mb port on the router they give me for the local fiber optic service, I get 100mb up/100mb down for $125 a month.
As some of you know, I will be moving to Ecuador soon (next 6 months or so is the idea).
For many years I have had a desire to leave the States and pursue a simpler and more relaxed environment with great weather. I documented some of this over the …
Latency and packet loss would be the biggest concerns, not width of the pipe. Having a gigabit Internet "speed" is all fine and dandy...
If one is downloading movies.
A fat pipe helps you download something like movies great. But when it comes to trading, I'd take 1ms latency and zero packet loss at 10 Mbs over having a gigabit of pipe bandwidth at 100 ms latency and dropped packets, any day of the week.
Internet "speed" is not all it is cracked up to be.
Naturally. But this is for my home office. Emphasis on home, so streaming and other high bandwidth activities are common place. Trading takes place on dedicated co-lo'd servers in Chicago with <1ms ping to broker risk platform.
