Cingular broadband and MT4

I'm up and running with the Cingular wireless broadband card with my laptop, an HP dv4000, as we speak. I'm looking at getting a Toshiba U200 Satellite because of the smaller size. I thought about a PDA but the screen is just too small for me and I need a keyboard. Either way back to Cingular and the connection with MT4.

My signal strength where I am varies between one and three bars. The max for the signal to get is five. My office where I'm using it has one main computer, two 19" LCD monitors, lots of florescent(sp?) lighting, cynder-block contsruction, with a 7' x 7' window. All of these except for the window can cause interference with any signal, cellular, wireless, broadband, etc. As far as the MT4 is concerned, even with a medium strength or weak signal, the server time with the broadband feed is exactly the same time as the hard-wired time. There is maybe a 5 second delay for orders to go through but I'm not overly concerned with that because I look at 4hr timeframes for the most part. MT4 has yet to loose a connection, boing!, even with the weakest signal. Web pages do take longer to load but the main reason for the broadband card is for MT4.

Set-up was easy, about 10 minutes. I'm going to let this run all day next week to see how things progress. I didn't bring in my power cord so I'm on the battery which is running low...Post questions if you have them.

Hey Palmer

Were you able to finally connect and use your email to connect to your cellphone for alerts?

Hope that you have a great weekend

Never got the email thing working Tenn...Uninstalled, reinstalled....it might be my McAfee that's doing something, just can't figure it out, Metaquotes can't either..... I'll keep at though, 'sparingly'....

Does anyone know the monthly data throughput for MT4 in terms of MB? I was thinking of getting a 5 or 10 MB plan just so I could stay connected to MT on the road. Which plan are you using Palmer?

I'm wondering the same thing as Nerva. Was planning to start with the cheaper plan and upgrade if it was need

The rep told me that the unlimited plan is the way to go for what I'm doing. After about 15 minutes the sent data size was about 500kb sent and received was about 750kb with two charts running. I'm not sure exactly how this works and it does seem like a lot of data for what MT4 is doing. Either way, If you're at work and you have MT4 running constantly for 8 hours that's 40 hour a week or 160 hours a month, give or take. This is what I'll do for Monday, I'm going to let the broadband card run MT4 for the entire day or two and see how much data comes in and out. I'll post an update here Monday evening, I'm curious as well. I've got a 30 day trial on this so I should be able to get a good feel for things....

Here's a quick screenshot of what's been going on. I've had the cbssportsline live baseball scores up and running for about 2 and a half hours. About 2MB of data used so far, not sure how this will equate to MT4 data use during the day but I'll be running that next week....

Quick update:

MT4 has been running for about 9 hours from the Cingular broadband Sierra Wireless card.

Data sent: 3.5MB
Data received: 5.8MB

This is with 4 charts running. I've seen a few forum posts stating that the unlimited plan is the only way to go no matter who your provider is. Some webpages are 5MB large. If you need email on the go with no attachments to send receive you can get away with a smaller MB per month plan. But, if you want to trade with MT4 and visit all of your friends here on the Factory looks like you need the unlimited plan...