How's the internet at the Rio?

[yimyammer]

Fast, slow, expensive, free?

[JackOfSpeed]

$9.95 per 24 hours. I remember the quality as being fine last year.

[pig4bill]

That's for dial-up speed. "High" speed is 12.95.

[shdw01]

last time i was at the rio, internet was fine...(good enought to play poker, check email, etc.)

[Tony Eusebio]

hmmm what if i need a couple terabytes of porn?

[pig4bill]

It works okay, not great. I got a lot of disconnects. If you're just websurfing, no big deal. I was using my stock trading platform and mirc, which is a pain if you disconnect.

[mastr]

what if i want to multitable while playing a tourney?

[stephenNUTS]

For things like e-mail,internet explorer,news,etc its basically OK,but for poker/stock trading it sucks.My wife was playing some very small PS tournies while I was downstairs,and was disconnected numerous times.They refunded the entire fee of $12.95 per day for the time we were there,saying they were having server issues within the hotel .In fact we even changed rooms when we arrived,as I still needed my CU for work,and some of the rooms DONT even have ISP service available,so make sure you ask when checking-in.

When I go back this week,I am making sure to have a new wireless card with with me as well.Based on what I saw .....I cant see how you can ONE table ,let alone multi-tabling?

Maybe its a bandwidth chewing issue with the poker/trading software ?

I had to execute some basic stock trades a few mornings using Level ll on my laptop,and finally just called them into the trade desk via phone,as that software ran horrendously from there also
Either way it wasnt acceptable,nor reliable,and I wouldnt be comfortable making any money related decisions at all!

~stephen /images/graemlins/cool.gif

[silver book]

Most people have assumed you are talking about the hotel.However, if you are talking about the river, it is surprisingly good. A little pricey though, as I have repeatedly had to buy new laptops