I am pretty sure it is just measured by the time it takes to complete a request. I am not sure what variance you get from the response on the VPS. I got around 26 milliseconds on average in a non-buy time. I didn't measure it in a busy time yet.LinusP wrote:How does betAngel calculate response time? Is it simply the time taken between calling the API and receiving the response. If so isn't it a function of what / how much data you are requesting?Euler wrote:I get about 15-30ms on average through Bet Angel.
Betfair throw the odd spanner in the works to get the odd higher ping. But we have it running as fast as we possibly can, as nearest as we can to Betfair.
I did some tests today on my proprietary software hosted on tagadab and averaged 13ms.
VPS CPU Speed
It's the time taken to prepare the request, send it to betfair, await the response and decompress it. So yes, the time will depend on the amount of date being returned. That's why we display three responsiveness values (prices, prices with full market depth, and bet information retrieval). The aim being to show the responsiveness at that present time for the market you are trading. The servers & network routings are tuned for optimum performance with the betfair API. Bet Angel's connection smoothing helps improve the trading experience. Also the Server Edition of Bet Angel Professional has been optimised for use on our VPS.
Obviously if Betfair is having a bad day, and is taking longer to process requests, then response times will increase, but we do everything we can to limit the impact of that.
Obviously if Betfair is having a bad day, and is taking longer to process requests, then response times will increase, but we do everything we can to limit the impact of that.
Is there a minimum or recommended broadband speed that would be required for trading using Betangel. Or what is the important number when getting data to Betfair servers and back..... is it Ping rate ? ie: I know from online gaming that a low Ping rate is vital when sending and receiving packets from the servers. so i was wondering if this has a similar baring on trading ?