broadband usage

[Terry]

DSL finally became available in my area; I got hooked up during the very week all the sites were going down to Americans. /sigh

Poker uses very little bandwidth, it's the stability of the connection that matters. I had played on dial-up from different parts of the country since the early days of Planet Poker ... had to try a few different ISPs in each area to find one that was stable ... it really only took an hour or two to determine that a particular ISP was no good for poker. Turned out to be the local/regional providers were much more stable than the nationals ... I'd go months between problem disconnects.

I haven't really noticed any difference in poker with DSL but, of course, high speed is very nice for other stuff.