Been playing with Solana a lot more lately, but price quotes are sluggish, 50% of my trades fail, trades take ~15 seconds to complete, and I have to break my trades up into much smaller increments to get them through. 

Any tips on how to get a better experience here? Moved my slippage up to 1% and that helped.

The answer seems to be much higher slippage. Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of low gas fees? 

In fact you in up paying a lot more in slippage than if gas was $0.10.

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Yeah low gas fees are negligible if slippage is high. 

Slippage will mostly depend on amount of liquidity though. Basically depth of books, combined with speed of execution. A lot of sol tokens prob have really thin liquidity which is why you have to set slippage high

Really depends what you are trying to trade.  If we're talking about memecoins for example, on Solana the liquidity to marketcap ratio for most memecoins is *much* higher (not a good thing) than your average Ethereum memecoins.  Base memecoins are kind of a middle-ground between the two.