How Bad is Dial-up for Multitabling?
 

Is dial-up internet too slow/crap for 8-20 tabling internet poker?

Just wondering. Looked at a great house today, but no high speed internet access in that area...no cable or dsl.

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I've used it for 4-tabling with no problems, although disconnects suck.

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Is dial-up internet too slow/crap for 8-20 tabling internet poker?

Just wondering. Looked at a great house today, but no high speed internet access in that area...no cable or dsl.

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I had dial-up for a long time up until a couple mths ago and I was always fine.
4, 6 or 8 tables...no biggie.


20 tabling?? are you serious??

there might be some pricier satellite-internet options you would want to consider though.

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I asked this question a while back. I had been driving to friends houses to use their cable connection, while i tried to get cable set up at my new place. I finally had to get dial up. It works fine, just get disconnects often(not to bad. 2 or 3 times in a day, but that's like 3 to 5k hands) You can still multitable successfully, haven't done more then 9 tables though.

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It's not ideal, but it's certainly do-able. Some nights are worse than others as far as disconnects go. The good thing about it is that it's impossible for me to be able to browse the web and play at the same time; it just bogs down the poker site to the point of being unplayable. So, it's good because it forces you to focus on playing.

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Have you looked into satellite (like DirecTV)? I know they have a high speed online service. Its a little pricier than cable, but better than nothing.

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We use Clearwire.net here (wireless off the cell towers I think.) We're in a non-cable area now also and the dial up connection was iffy at best and 4 tabling was a real problem. The price for this is less than we were paying for cable internet.


-S&SGW

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I’ve been playing on dial-up for years without problems. I tried a few different ISPs before settling on the local one I now use ... there was a big difference in stability between different providers. 10 games open all the time and I go months between disconnects.

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The ISP is a HUGE variable in this equation. Most local ISPs will set up a test account for you to try for 24-48hrs. Take advantage of that to find a good one.

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what's dial up?

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what's dial up?

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I used to 3-table on dial-up AOL with a 1280x1024 monitor and 600 MHz machine. With nothing else running except one extra browser window with 2+2 (text only), I'd crash or disconnect about once an hour or every two hours, which was just barely bearable. I couldn't run GT or PA HUD or it would freeze up immediately. With PT running in the background, or Excel, or anything that took decent resources, the crash/disconnect rate would double or worse.

As bad as all that sounds, overlapping screens, frequent disconnects, and worst of all freezes on my end (meaning that the host did not recognize a disconnect, so I would lose whatever hands I was involved in), it really didn't seem all that bad to me. I mean, I was only playing .5/1 and wouldn't want to do it for serious money, but I was learning and so it seemed far better than the alternatives (not playing or one-tabling). I just viewed the various malfunctions as additional challenges that had to be overcome. Strangely, after I got my new computer and broadband, I kind of missed the old way a little.

The funniest thing was that sometimes the screen-updating would start to deteriorate before it locked up completely. As cards were dealt or folded or money bet or any other action happened, the images would leave trails as they moved across the screen, obscuring what was underneath, and other weird things happened. As soon as it started to mess up I'd uncheck the auto-blind and try to make it to the end of the round before I restarted my computer, meaning I had to play several hands at a disadvantage. The screen would start looking psychadelic and you would gradually lose important pieces of information about the game, like other peoples stack sizes (not a big deal, playing limit), community cards dealt in prior rounds (ok if you had a decent memory), pot size (getting more serious), and finally your own cards or currently dealt community cards (getting really serious now).

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Wow, I'd kill myself if I still had dial up.

True story.

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Is dial-up internet too slow/crap for 8-20 tabling internet poker?

Just wondering. Looked at a great house today, but no high speed internet access in that area...no cable or dsl.

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A possible soln: If a friend has broadband within a few km then you could borrow his internet through a directional antennae.