Minimum Internet Speed Required for Poker?

[Josem]

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Ignore me?

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Yeah, 'cause you're talking about stuff that doesn't relate to the question

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What does dial-up rate?

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Dial-up internet access these days is almost certainly 56k access.

For an explanation of what this means, go to wikipedia.

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As band-width heavy as FTP is, I cannot four-table without problems.[/quot]e
I don't doubt this.

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Obviously, if the internet speed has nothing to do with how well the software responds to your computer, then I rescind all of my fears.

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Most of the problems that people face with massively-multitabling having lots of lag is likely to be CPU lag.



In short, the information can get clogged at a variety of bottlenecks.

[plool]

Ok. Just for whoever is interested:

I monitored a recent 4 table session at Pokerstars (6 max) for about an hour and here are some statistics:

Average transfer/download rate was 2.6 kB/second.

On a good modem setup at 56Kbs you get about a 6.8 kB/second maximum transfer/download.

On a 768Kbs connection your transfer/download speed is about 825 kB/second. This is definitely more than enough to 4-table Pokerstars.

[funkyworms]

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On a 768Kbs connection your transfer/download speed is about 825 kB/second.

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Does not compute.

[plool]

Woah, yeah I was incorrect -- 768Kbs is about 96 kB/second

Kilobits versus Kilobytes