What is the shortest time to snipe a bid?
A. Generally it’s dependant on the speed of your net connection. I don’t recommend dialup users set their snipe any faster than 15 seconds, and recommend 20-30. Depending on your DSL and how loaded your connection is, you can probably go down to around 7-10 seconds. With JBidwatcher I’ve sniped at 1 second on a REALLY fast connection, but it was a corporate internet connection, lots of bandwidth, super-low-latency, and an item I wasn’t too concerned about losing. I don’t recommend anything near 1 second for home use; clock skew, other programs slowing the system down, random emails coming in, or any other internet traffic can make it so that a really close snipe fails. In fact, I generally advise against going closer than 5 seconds, and even that is VERY close, and any variation in your local network traffic or CPU availability can slow the snipe just enough to miss it. If you want to be relatively safe, stick with 10 seconds on the very fastest DSL lines, and increase it from there, c
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