Influences of speed of bets

[andak fedal]

Can anyone tell me if any of the following influence how quickly you can see the market and place bets using this software please?


-being connected to the internet wirelessly
-using only 8mb broadband
-order of if else structure formulas


Thanks in advance!

[doris_day]

Can anyone tell me if any of the following influence how quickly you can see the market and place bets using this software please?


-being connected to the internet wirelessly
-using only 8mb broadband
-order of if else structure formulas


Thanks in advance!

All those things have an effect as do the following:

Speed of your processor, amount of RAM your computer has, which version of Excel you have and, more importantly, your round trip time to Betfair.
But their significance in your winning longterm is entirely another matter

[GaryRussell]

Wireless connections tend to suffer from latency due to interference. Unless you have a particularly reliable wireless connection we don't recommend it.

[andak fedal]

Thanks for the prompt responses. I'm glad I asked this!

What speed internet connection do you reccomend?

Is there a point in terms of how quick your internet connection is where it'll make no more difference.

[GaryRussell]

8 mbit is sufficient. Anything faster doesn't really have an impact because it's not how much data you can transfer per second that is important. Latency is far more important. This is how quick the bet placement takes to get to Betfair's server. It's only a few kilobytes in each request so having a 50mbit connection isn't going to make a difference here, you just need a good quality connection.

[andak fedal]

Great to hear! Thanks for this info Gary.

[N Counter]

Can anyone tell me why the amount of RAM influences speed?

[Captain Sensible]

Can anyone tell me why the amount of RAM influences speed?

Computers are continually juggling bits of information around, just running the operating system on most windows computers takes up so much memory. Not all this information is being used at one time but the computer needs to remember it and have access to it.

If the computer doesn't have enough RAM to store it it'll write that info the the hard drive for retrevial when needed. Basically it's a lot quicker for the computer to access that info from a RAM chip rather than accessing it from a mechanical hard drive.

[N Counter]

Thanks Captain that helps.

[sabrehill44]

I've got 4 laptops running off a router here.

If I hardware my laptop to the router will that benefit my connection

and BA software?

Thanks

[GaryRussell]

I've got 4 laptops running off a router here.

If I hardware my laptop to the router will that benefit my connection

and BA software?

Thanks

Do you mean they are currently connected wirelessly? If so then yes hardwired is always better.

[sabrehill44]

Yes Gary, wireless.

One more thing ( Columbo impression ), I've got a page open for each race

today so that my offset bets get triggered ( we've been chatting about it on

another thread ).

However now I see the refresh rate set at 0.2 secs is actually 4+ secs.

Don't suppose I can do anything about that ?

TIA

[GaryRussell]

Yes Gary, wireless.

One more thing ( Columbo impression ), I've got a page open for each race

today so that my offset bets get triggered ( we've been chatting about it on

another thread ).

However now I see the refresh rate set at 0.2 secs is actually 4+ secs.

Don't suppose I can do anything about that ?

TIA

It depends on the throttle limit. You can change the throttle limit in preferences, but be aware that you can get charged if you exceed 20 per second. If you have several markets open you cannot have them all refreshing at 0.2 so you need to decide which market is a priority and reduce the refresh rate on the other tabs to speed up the refresh.

[sabrehill44]

Great stuff, tyvm Gary