Network Question

[Soleo]

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and who knows how the apps (Party's software for example) themselves would react. As a matter of fact, there could be measures inside the poker software that base things on IP and might lock you out of the table.

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It would be rational from their side even for just technical reasons. I did reconnect to tournament table through another ISP after losing connection closing the table first but never tried same on the fly.

[BradleyT]

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I wouild say I average 3-5 hours down time a month.

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Use that downtime to call your mom. She misses you.

[lacky]

tried that, she said it was 3am and got pissed, u just can't win

[Blarg]

You could also just get dial-up for $20 a month for your emergency downtimes.

I'm still 4-tabling on a 44k modem LOL.

WAN stands for Wide Area Network. LAN is Local Area Network.

I don't know about this stuff, but the way I think it goes is, you could have a LAN on one floor of your building, and a WAN connecting your LANs in other buildings, that kinda thing. I think WiFi networks are referred to as WANs too, but I'm way, way out of my depth on this stuff.

[Jim Kuhn]

Get free back up from Juno.com It is slow dialup but is ok for emergencies. You can utilize up to ten hours per month for free.

Thank you,

Jim Kuhn
Catfish4U
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[dogmeat]

I use Cox digital, but they go down a couple times a month for a few hours each time. I've got AT&T dial-up as my backup which costs $16 a month. When Cox goes down I just dial AT&T.

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[ir1337]

Yes, your connection may default to the better signal depending on how you set it up. It's not difficult, and it would be nice for failover - but if the internet connection goes down, you would have to take down the router on that side. You CAN buy multiple WAN (Wide area network - in this case, the internet connecitons (DSL/Cable)) routers that auto failover. If you want to look at that route, it's quite a nice setup.

And, yay me. First post. Something that I actually KNOW. =)

[lacky]

that sounds like exactly what I was wanting. Any specific recomandations?

[lacky]

Hey Richard,

I figured out what a WAN is!! The Edimax looks perfect, I need to get with the tech people at the sites I play and see what instantly swiching IP's will do to their software though. So, basicaly I need to get through to someone intellegent at Party. That could be the biggest challange.

Steve

[ir1337]

Someone earlier tossed out some in the 150 range...the ones I have used are in network operations center devices...Cisco, Nortel, BayNet...I will look around for a decently priced one and toss a couple here.