Eyeball2002308 wrote: : : enough...this is where the broadband guys have it over on us po' folks with : dial up... : Gotta disagree there. I had dial up until nearly 2 years ago. I had a script that would establish the connection with about 15 minutes to go, and shut the connection down about 5 minutes later.
The snipe program would be started once the connection was established, and do its thing. Since the auction was already loaded, I didn't have to worry about nuisances like login scripts. I am pretty sure I had the the snipe timer set to around 7 - 8 seconds.
Now, with cable modem, I had the timer set a 3 seconds, and that is pretty accurate as to when my bids are placed. Of course, I do run ntpdate every two hours, as my clock drifts badly (.75 seconds/hour, or about 17 seconds/day).
And, yeah, I lose plenty of auctions - bid is already higher than what I was willing to pay, or the proxy bid was higher. Shrug.
Bruce