[jackflashdrive]

Thanks for the heads-up. I think I will purchase a verizon unlimited long-distance plan (US, Canada) for $61 per month, and purchase a canadian ISP dial-up account for probably about $15/month. Dedicate a poker computer to this line (no high-speed line attached) and I am good to go, right?

So this setup costs app. $1000 per year (hell i pay over 10K per month just in rake). I recall that someone asked percula a question about the cost of setting up a reliable VPN and it seemed the costs far exceeded that. So why aren't US poker players simply going the (apparently) foolproof route of long-distance over copper-wire to canadian ISP? It just doesn't seem that important to have a high-speed connection to poker sites, which transmit relatively small amounts of data back and forth. Or am I wrong?