Back up connections / multitabling on dial up
 

I 10-table Party SnG's and have on multiple occasions been screwed over by my unreliable SBC DSL service which likes to just disconnect for various amounts of time when I'm on the bubble. So, I'm looking into getting a cheap dial up for a back up. I'm just unsure of how well a 56k connection could handle running 10 tables at once. Any help is much appreciated.

Re: Back up connections / multitabling on dial up
 

I have no problems playing six tables and half the time I only connect at 28.8k...

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I've done eight without a problem. Just don't surf the net at the same time.

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How are you going to work it so the phone line takes over automatically? Have both come into a router on a home network? Seems like that way you still have to dial in and sign in on the phone line, then monitor it and redial if (when) it gets disconnected. Can you set up all that to be automatic? And then it still seems like you'll lose your current hand from the time lost getting back to the poker site and signing in and finding the table, although that's certainly better than the whole thing.

Not trying to discourage, just raising some issues I ran into when I thought about doing the same thing - hope you can work them out and tell us how.

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You probably already have dial-up service with SBC. Every broadband service I've ever used had dial-up numbers for when you're traveling, or their broadband is down. They sometimes charge by the minute, sometimes with a certain free amount each month, but if you're on the bubble, what's a dollar or two?

My old DSL through Earthlink was so unreliable that I often had to resort to their dial-up, then told them to shove the minutes bill when it arrived.