Different server connection locations and latency

cAlgo_Development
12 Sep 2013, 14:53

I have an account at IC markets and a VPS which is on net via Commercial Network Services in New York.

The IC markets cAlgo from this VPS connects to London-3 giving ~40ms latency. Is there no server closer to NY? Does this not defeat the purpose of having a VPS on net with your broker?

Our servers are located in London, so the simplest thing you can do is to move your VPS to London-based data-center. All major providers have data-centers in London.

I also login to my cAlgo account from my home desktop whilst is logged in on the VPS. At home in Australia I get connected to Sydney-3. I then notice that my VPS has connected to Sydney-3 also. Should this be happening?

cTrader and cAlgo automatically find closest proxy to connect to, but sometimes it can connect to wrong proxy. Right now we improve our best proxy algorithm so that probability of such wrong connections become almost zero.

rohan
12 Sep 2013, 15:22

RE:

kyro747 said:

I have an account at IC markets and a VPS which is on net via Commercial Network Services in New York.

The IC markets cAlgo from this VPS connects to London-3 giving ~40ms latency. Is there no server closer to NY? Does this not defeat the purpose of having a VPS on net with your broker?

I also login to my cAlgo account from my home desktop whilst is logged in on the VPS. At home in Australia I get connected to Sydney-3. I then notice that my VPS has connected to Sydney-3 also. Should this be happening?

 

Regarding 'on net'/cross connects - you'd be correct in saying that MT4 is 'on net', but 'on net' doesn't apply to all client platforms ie. cTrader/cAlgo. 

In this instance the server side equipment is in London so for ideal latency, you'd need to be in London (generally speaking, NL/DE/FR have good latency to London also)

kyro747
12 Sep 2013, 16:33

Thanks guys