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- IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING PC-QUOTE USAGE
-
- Since its release, Personal Stock Monitor has been using PC
- Quote as the default quote server, because PC Quote was one
- of the first and the best. All these months later, with the
- growing popularity of PSM, PC Quote has been seeing the load
- on their servers rise to levels which are seriously impeding
- performance for all users.
-
- As shipped, PSM sets the automatic updates interval at
- fifteen minutes, but some people have been setting their
- intervals to zero in order to get quicker notification of
- changes. This amounts to abuse of the services PC Quote is
- providing to the Internet community.
-
- PC Quote is being very reasonable by not shutting off access
- to PSM users, which they can easily do. They have requested
- that you IMMEDIATELY SET YOUR UPDATE INTERVAL TO A MINIMUM
- OF FIVE MINUTES in order to ease the load on their servers.
- If this is not done immediately, you RISK LOSING ACCESS TO
- PC QUOTE for yourself and all PSM users. This applies for
- both delayed and Real-Time users.
-
- v1.3.3 of the PSM software has only one change from v1.3.2,
- and that change is one which enforces this five minute
- restriction for all symbol updates from PC Quote servers.
-
- v2.0 of the PSM software has been changed to use the PC
- Quote MarketSmart Delayed server, which is a password-
- protected server. You can get a free user name and password
- by going to http://www.pcquote.com, and signing up for
- MarketSmart Delayed. This change is by request of PC Quote
- administration, and allows them to better track their server
- usage.
-