mt5 drops connection right at london open every day, anyone else

[maxturner]

every single morning around london open my mt5 loses connection for 20-40 seconds. just long enough to miss the move im actually watching for. broker says its my end, my isp says line is clean.

running mt5 on windows, decent fibre connection, not a vps. happens on two different brokers so i dont think its broker side. anyone figured out what causes this specifically at session open?

[darkhorizon]

classic symptom of running the terminal on a home connection during the highest-traffic minute of the day. its not your line speed, its the latency spike and packet loss when everyone hits the server at once. a cheap vps near your broker server location fixes this completely. i went from daily drops to zero after moving to a london vps.

[william_h]

seconded. home fibre is great for bandwidth but terrible for the consistent low latency mt5 needs. the terminal holds a persistent connection and any micro-interruption forces a reconnect. vps solves it for like 5-10 bucks a month.

[Brandon]

does the vps location actually matter that much? i assumed any vps would be fine as long as its online.

[nightwalker]

it matters a lot. you want the vps in the same datacenter region as your broker trade server. ask your broker where their mt5 server is hosted, usually london (LD4/equinix) or new york (NY4). a vps 2ms from the server behaves totally differently than one 120ms away.

[Nathaniel]

or you could just not scalp the london open like everyone else and avoid the whole problem. if 30 seconds of downtime ruins your strategy the strategy is too fragile to survive a real spread spike anyway.

[Dean]

to be fair the troll has half a point. but there are legit reasons to need uptime at open, news straddles, breakout entries. i run a vps AND keep my stops server-side so a disconnect cant leave me naked. belt and suspenders.

[justin_98]

one more thing to check before you pay for a vps: disable any antivirus real-time scanning on the mt5 folder and turn off windows auto-update active hours overlap. ive seen defender lock the terminal mid-session and look exactly like a connection drop.

[Nicholas]

vps fixed this for me, end of story.