Price update rate rapidly deteriorates

[moonlighter]

Retrieving prices from non-batch server (stockwatch); Only one price update per request. Data transfer rate steadily deteriorates over the course of retrieving 20 price updates from 1.00[units?]/second for the first price update to 0.25[units?]/second for the last price update. Don't understand why this is happening.

[Mark]

Hi moonlighter,

How many investments are you updating? It might be the server, slowing down as it sees multiple requests from the same IP address. Are you retrieving often?

I tested it with a dozen investments, and don't notice any significant slowdown here.

[moonlighter]

I am updating 32 investment prices in one sub-portfolio in one shot. By the time it gets to updating the 32nd investment price the rate has declined to about 0.2(KB?)/second from 1.0/second at the beginning of the update. It's not a problem that needs to be solved, I can live with it. Just wondered why this happens. Thanks, Mark.

[Mark]

I'm not sure why that is happening. It isn't anything FM is doing, but my guess is that somehow the server is limiting your rate based on the number of accesses.