Bet Processing Time

[Don K Jackett]

Hi,

I have just come back to using BA after a couple months sabbattical from trading.

I've noticed that on certain markets eg tennis, football and snooker it is taking 5 to 6 seconds to process a bet placement. The new black box which I've nticd says processing then tells me how long it has taken to place the bet. There is not a problem with my PC nor broadband connection as the data refresh is doing the business at 0.2. This is also happening when I try it on my new laptop which makes me think it is not a PC problem.

This is causing a few probs when placing bets in-play on these markets as 5 seconds delay can be an eternity in play.

Also what is strange that the inplay markets on horse racing still place my bets instantly, so it appears to be a prob with some markets.

Or is it something I am/am not doing properly ?

Any ideas anyone ?

Cheers

Don

[GaryRussell]

Betfair impose a 5 second delay on most in play markets, it's 1 second on horse racing so is less noticeable, but it has always been there. This is not a problem with BA. The delay has always been there, recently I added a countdown display for the delay so it is more visible.

This is Betfair's reason for the delay http://help.betfair.com/contents/itemId ... ex.en.html

[GaryRussell]

I should also point out that once you see the start of 5 second countdown your request has already been sent to Betfair's server, BA is not trying to hold your bet up, Betfair will sit on the request for 5 seconds before processing it. There is no way around this, do not believe any claims you may see on the Betfair forums, they will be on the wind up.

[Don K Jackett]

I should also point out that once you see the start of 5 second countdown your request has already been sent to Betfair's server, BA is not trying to hold your bet up, Betfair will sit on the request for 5 seconds before processing it. There is no way around this, do not believe any claims you may see on the Betfair forums, they will be on the wind up.

Ah that would expalin a lot.

Thanks for the reply mate.

Cheers

Don