Recommended Router for Trading

[mister ed]

There is plenty more you can do to speed up Firefox. I found this tutorial on a Linux site, but the tweaks are relevant to the browser not to the OS so go ahead and use them in Windows as well.

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/speed-up-f...b-browser.html

The tutorial is written, not in video format but it is much more detailed with many more methods of optimising Firefox for speed and efficiency. I have implemented all of them and the difference is incredible.

Actualyl, I will reproduce this in a new thread also ... I nearly didn't read this one as I don't need a new router!

[momentom]

	Quote:	brownsfan019
	I may be changing out a few things here on the computers and thought now is a as good a time as any to look at a new router. Since we have some handy tech members on the forum, looking for ideas on a strong, stable router that can easily handle trading app's. I currently have a netgear that works fine but I read this post on ET that talked about older routers being capped out. Not sure if that is 100% accurate or not, but if it is, I should consider a new one. In that thread, someone mentioned this site that reviews routers so I was glancing at that as well for some ideas. I'm looking for the best router out there that can handle speed and push the data through ASAP. Please list your recommendations here! Thanks!

Cisco routers are the industry's top of the line. Cisco bought Linksys who make "home" use routers and modems of great quality and technology. Buy the Linksys model that has the features you need.

The bits of wire between your pc and your ISP's internet backbone are equaly important for speed. Use good quality cable and google "speetdtest" to check your speeds.

If your area has both cable and DSL, getting both will give you redundancy and you should never be off the air.

Finally, I buy my computers in pairs and ensure that my backup pc is always the same as trading pc. Switching between them every week-end helps do this. I use multiple monitors so that's not an issue.