Zopa timeout values Any ideas anyone.

Just keeping Zopa alive on the pages I am using whilst I am performing work on my spreadsheets - generally its reconciling of all my data. There are a number of things I check on a monthly basis such as

* Monthly Statements checking
* Monthly updates of current and all_time csv's

I generally join statements to alltime csv's and then am able to get things like 

* Stats/diagnostics
* Statements - payments and missed payments on any loan.
* Checking expected loan returns against actual returns.

Many many more things but some of my spreadsheets take some 10 minutes or more to correlate after I have loaded up the latest data. This lag means that I  used to have to keep logging into zopa and wading my way back down to the relevant screens - its so slow these days.

Since I am now able to refresh the screens whilst I am offline I just wanted to get the reload timing nearer the timeouts to make it less of a draw on the relevant servers. There is an awful lot of sideline data being loaded as well these days - mostly optimisation analysis that zopas is currently subjecting everyone to.

I have 4 lots of accounts (Invest and ISA for both of us) of varying size to deal with on a monthly  basis. 

One of the things that I picked up using these files was that in May/Jun Zopa made a real pigs arse of prematurely selling some SG loans - for Mrs Aju there was over a dozen or more loans missold that need not have been. Zopa paid a pretty price for that failure and they went on to cock up the live fixes as well - resulting in multiple attempts with more errors.

It's not everyones cup of tea but I was a s/w designer and developer in my previous worklife days and whilst it would be a lot easier to do some of this stuff with oracle or other db tools, i get by using excel 2007 and a bit of dos etc although I do rely on the excel multithreading a lot more these days due to the sheer size of the statements data.

I bet you are glad you asked ;-).