DislikedCannot comment on the slippage, but my service used to freeze often, usually at news times. Sometimes it was frozen for minutes at a time and the connection would drop out as well. When I reported it here, i was effectively argued down by others who said their connection was solid.
Eventually, following advice from someone on this forum, I deactivated the data center auto config in the MT4 tools/option/server menu and manually entered the DC ip address. In my case it was 118.127.74.114:443 . Since that time, my outages have been minimal.Ignored
I noticed a performance difference with your suggestion.
Over the weekend I also reinstalled the latest version of MT4.
I was running an older build (LiveUpdate didn't work on my W7 OS). However, I had a much older build on a different MT4 broker and that one was ok (ie no freezing or extreme slow response times).
So, I shall see how this week's trading goes and get back to you.
thanks again Mpt for your fix suggestion.
cheers