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)
rohan
12 Sep 2013, 15:22
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kyro747 said:
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)
@rohan