Re: How do you deal with this BS?
I happen to have the worst Internet provider in the world. Adelphia in Los Angeles.
My connection goes down like clockwork every Sunday afternoon, and it started getting really bad over the summer.
I lost several $50 tournament entries because I was unable to play.
My first really bad experience I folded into 3rd on the final table with a monster stack (5 players left).
One week later I lost my connection heads up on a final table with T1,000,000 (50%) and had T100,000 when my provider came back online. 1st - $3000, 2nd - $2000.
I bought a Verizon wireless broadband card for my PC. It connects at either broadband or modem speeds depending on what's available in your area. It costs $80/month (unlimited), and now I can take my game anywhere.
It's not as fast as a hard connection, but having two independent ways of getting to the Internet is going to eliminate almost all of the problems.
This weekend when the Internet went down at 2PM, I plugged in my Verizon card and only missed 1 hand on each table.
My game is now mobile, too.
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