The number of threads like this is really frustrating. Isn't there a chat room somewhere where other IB users can be found? It's not that I'm not sympathetic to people having problems - it sucks when you've got your dough on the line and there are problems. At least once a week, I experience an outage of some kind with one of my several data providers. If it lasts for more than a minute or two, I contact the provider. It would never occur to me to post about it on a message board as it happens, given the non-real-time nature of the medium. I'm certain that I'm not alone in this.