Any stories about dial-up and poker?

[cnfuzzd]

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.


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[MicroBob]

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.

[sputum]

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

[ragecg]

-- DISCONNECTED --

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

[Losing all]

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

[dlk9s]

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

[elrudo]

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.

[MicroBob]

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.

[primetime32]

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.

[ski]

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