Any stories about dial-up and poker?
 

My gf is moving some place that doesnt have broadband access (dont ask) and she was curious how a dial-up connection would be in terms of playing poker. Lots of dropped connections, or what? Please entertain and inform me. Thanks.


pjn

Re: Any stories about dial-up and poker?
 

I still had dial-up until Sept, 2005.
Never had a problem with it.
Hardly ever dropped out on me.

Could depend on the quality of phone-line in your area or if you have some weird short in your phone-jacks.
But in most normal situations in should work perfectly fine.

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Four tables (Ongame) rock solid with no problems. Would recommend external modem if they are still to be found (rather than manky pci chipsets)

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-- DISCONNECTED --

user has 15 seconds to connect.
user has requested TIME.
user folds.
user is sitting out.

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I was on dialup my first couple years. There were periods of trouble but decent for the most part.

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I 5-tables on Prima from hotel room once and it was fine. A little slow, but I never timed out.

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With most rooms, 4-tabling using dialup should not be a problem.

Back when I played poker by using dialup, a few years ago, I only experienced big problems with Pokerstars and Pacific poker.

Also, downloading the pokerroom upgrades sucks bigtime.

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Depends what stakes you play. For me 8 tabling Party it probably lowered my winrate like .5 PTBB/100 at NL.

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I'm in a rural area and can 4 table on a 24k very poor-quality line. There's sure no surfing while playing, though.

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Re: Any stories about dial-up and poker?
 

yes, those pokerroom updates were sucky on the dial-up line.

Same for Absolute and UB which seemed to have frequent updates also...but not as frequent as pokerroom.


I think software difference vary by computer or something.
Pokerstars usually was one of the best sites for me to play on via dial-up.

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For about 50 or 60 a month you could get verizon wireless internet access. Better than dial up. I do use dial up once in a while and never really have much of a problem.

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If his GF lives in an area where they don't have broadband-access then there's a chance they wouldn't get the signal necessary for Verizon National Access.

I have actually been in places where Verizon Access actually doesn't work but you have to be kind of remote I think.

I definitely think that Verizon Access would be worth looking into in this situation though unless they are REALLY freaking remote or something.

When I got it there was a 15-day trial period during which you could cancel the plan if you weren't satisfied. If they still have this then you would have nothing to use.


I think it's perfect for people who might be travelling or moving around a lot. Much better than having to pay $10/day in hotels or airports which is becoming more and more the standard.


I'll be moving from city to city fairly soon for a few months at a time just travelling around and enjoying the flexibility one can have as an online-poker pro.
I won't have to set up one hi-speed connection after another as I travel around because I already have the Verizon card and will get broadband-access in 180 cities in the country...and 2x dial-up speed in most other places.


cnfuzzed should do a search for the discussion we had about verizon broadband-access about a week ago and look into whether that is an option for their upcoming situation.