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#21
07-15-2005, 11:24 PM
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Re: how does having DSL and cable at the same time work?
In my neck of the woods, cable is the better alternative if you use cable television. At my first apartment, we had cable internet at 3/.5 Mbps (I think that was the upload speed). It was about $40, I believe, since we also used cable TV. At my last apartment, it was not possible to get cable since the complex had a deal with SBC for DirectTV, which was provided with our rent. We got DSL there. It was 1.5/?? and cost over $60/mo. That included the phone service, be we never even plugged a phone in. We all used our cell phones. However, at my parents' house, we are not wired for cable since it would have cost several hundred to run cable out here. We live quite a ways off of the road. We use DishNetwork for TV. A couple of years ago, SBC started offering DSL here, so that is what we use. IIRC, it is 1.5 downstream. I don't know how much it costs, but I would guess $30-40. In the future, even if I use Dish for TV, I will probably still try to use cable internet. It only costs about $10 more/month if not getting a package deal, which still makes it a better deal than DSL to me. In addition, about a year ago, Cox cable speeds increased to 4 Mbps for the same price. I think that the cable vs. DSL question depends a lot on where you live.
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#22
07-16-2005, 03:20 AM
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Re: how does having DSL and cable at the same time work?
Poker players don't care about throughput, they care about latency. DSL typically crushes cable connections in this department. DSL connections are actually subnetted, cable is a flat network. That means that with DSL, I don't care if little Johnny down the street is downloading goat porn but with cable it'll lag me.
Latency is everything if you don't care about 0-day goat porn. As far as the OP: yeah, just get a dial-up backup unless you're multitabling the 100 SnG's... in that case just call a local geek to come hook you up, tell him it's "mission critical". 100's players have the money for this kind of crap. Any 100's players in/around denver need this service? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
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#23
07-16-2005, 04:57 AM
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Re: how does having DSL and cable at the same time work?
"With load balancing and automatic fail over, you wouldn't even notice that one connection went down."
This is not true.
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#24
07-17-2005, 07:13 PM
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Re: how does having DSL and cable at the same time work?
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Latency is everything if you don't care about 0-day goat porn. [/ QUOTE ] Yeah, but how about downloading goat porn WHILE playing poker? Some of us are multi-taskers, you know. On the topic here, does anybody have this hooked up where we know it will work with party poker and the others? I'm no expert but I know the PP software monitors the internet connection and I also know it ain't bugfree code. How do we know that just switching from main to backup internet service wont set it off in a tizzy?
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#25
07-18-2005, 05:16 AM
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Re: how does having DSL and cable at the same time work?
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[ QUOTE ] Latency is everything if you don't care about 0-day goat porn. [/ QUOTE ] Yeah, but how about downloading goat porn WHILE playing poker? Some of us are multi-taskers, you know. On the topic here, does anybody have this hooked up where we know it will work with party poker and the others? I'm no expert but I know the PP software monitors the internet connection and I also know it ain't bugfree code. How do we know that just switching from main to backup internet service wont set it off in a tizzy? [/ QUOTE ] I've unplugged my router during a hand. Plugged it back in at was still my action. This should be even more transparent. Freakin
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#26
07-18-2005, 01:57 PM
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Re: how does having DSL and cable at the same time work?
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Latency is everything if you don't care about 0-day goat porn. [/ QUOTE ] Yeah, but how about downloading goat porn WHILE playing poker? Some of us are multi-taskers, you know. On the topic here, does anybody have this hooked up where we know it will work with party poker and the others? I'm no expert but I know the PP software monitors the internet connection and I also know it ain't bugfree code. How do we know that just switching from main to backup internet service wont set it off in a tizzy? [/ QUOTE ] I've unplugged my router during a hand. Plugged it back in at was still my action. This should be even more transparent. Freakin [/ QUOTE ] Not neccesarily. If your IP address switches suddenly, the poker site may interpret it as you being hijacked and stop the session... If they want to be really safe about it they may even lock your account. I'm just speculating though, I have no experience with this issue.
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#27
07-18-2005, 05:01 PM
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Re: how does having DSL and cable at the same time work?
well, I had the same problem, so I switched to DSL. have been VERY happy with it. It's rock solid. Also, as a bonus, my dsl is yahoo dsl. They include a dial up account which, as a bonus, has nationwide access numbers in the U.S. The nice thing about this is, I went ahead and configured the dial-up account on an old modem I had. I figure If I lose DSL, I could always dial up. I've never had to use it though. The only time I've lost DSL is when my dog chewed up the phone cable outside my house [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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