Poker Internet Connection

So, I've been using my ATT laptop connect card to play poker online, and because it's usage is limited I've had to cut my sessions down, limiting my play as to not exceed the usage limit.

I am looking into getting the ATT DSL internet, as it has unlimited usage, is fast enough to play and costs less that a cable connection.

What kind of connection does everyone here use? Any DSL people out there? If so, is the connection good for poker playing?

I use a connect card like you, never had problems with the usage though, and it's more then fast enough to muti-table poker. DSL will be however be much faster then the connect card for downloading and watching stuff like poker videos.

Good luck on the felts.

I have a cable connection. I can't imagine playing with anything less. I can download big files and still play several tables.

One pro (I think it was Lindgreen in Negreanu's book) recommended having two different types of internet connection so that if one when down while you were playing, you could use the other one.

I don't wager nearly enough money to have to worry about losing my connection but something serious players should consider.

I live in the middle of nowhere, and they do not offer a high speed connection. So I use dial-up.

I can six-table with out any connection problems. poker sites don't use a lot of bandwidth.

UltimateBet takes awhile to load though. I think they want to load videos and crap, so whenever I log in there I just walk away and come back a couple minutes later.

I'm on Pacific Coast of US and we have ATT here. There are 3 different speeds that they offer for their DSL and of course I got the best one.. However, I still get disconnected few times a month; some days connection just horrible (and I try not to play when I realize connection 's gone bad), but most of the time it's fine.

Fulltilt is the only site where there seem to be lots of disconnects. If it isn't happening to me, it's happening to one of the other 8 people at the table.

The connection here at my college sucks...drives me insane when it lags as I'm multi-tabling.

im on a cable connection so i dont have many disconnect problems unless i get capped and then its terrible so i dont bother playing i also have a backup wireless account on a 3g modem stick which is just as good as my cable at times im in australia not usa though

I have verizon fios and I never have a connection speed problem. I can multi table, bit torrent porn, and have a netflix movie running in the background.

DSL, works great for everything. I remember reading that the quality of a cable connection can vary by the time of day based on how it works, but DSL is mostly consistent. When I went with DSL I rather stupidly thought I'd use it for games that suck up much more bandwidth than poker.

I think it really depends on where you live. I tried DSL in my old place and was too far from the main hub for it to work so I had to go to cable which worked great. Now since I got married and moved into my wife's place I got DSL since it was cheaper and honestly I think it's just as fast as the cable was at my old place. You just gotta try them out. You can get a 30 day trial with most places I think.

You must have a very low usage limit, be playing a ton of poker, or doing a lot of other stuff online, if your data plan is being exceeded. A poker client's bandwidth is pretty minimal, the only data regularly passing back and forth (hand data, bet amounts, chat, system messages, etc.) is tiny. The heavier stuff like dynamic lobby images and whatnot are typically loaded once and cached until they change, while most of the graphics are static and located on your PC. So it's a lot less bandwidth-intensive than a general web surfing session.

online poker requires very little bandwidth, it just needs to be reliable (not drop often). DSL is fine for poker, it's probably still the most prevalent type of home broadband connection unless cable has overtaken it by now. Personally I prefer DSL to cable, but then again cable has improved greatly over the past few years and overcome many of its shortcomings, so they're pretty much equal these days in terms of reliability. Cable offerings tend to have higher bandwidth options now, it seems.

But fiber is so much better than both, I don't think I'll ever move to a place where I had to give up my fiber connection and go back to either cable or DSL. Being a professional geek who earns a living at this stuff (computers, not poker) and having about a dozen PC's at home, several of which are 24/7 servers connected to the internet, the typical home broadband options are just not appealing to me.

I have cable (UPC) net. It's dependable usually except a few months ago when it was impossible to reach western european servers for days.

I use a phone DSL high speed connection through a wireless hub to my laptop.

Never a problem.

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I use cable myself,no problems unless someone hits a telephone pole and knocks down the line or something like that.I had 3gigs or whatever,but to reduce my bill,I had it reduced to 1 gig.Which is fairly fast.It dont take long to download anything except possibly a movie.
If you are real serious player I like the idea of a different type of internet in case of line disruptions.Dialup would do great for backups.

I have DSL with a dialup option that fortunately I've never had to use.

SavagePenguin said:

I live in the middle of nowhere, and they do not offer a high speed connection. So I use dial-up.

I can six-table with out any connection problems. Poker sites don't use a lot of bandwidth.

UltimateBet takes awhile to load though. I think they want to load videos and crap, so whenever I log in there I just walk away and come back a couple minutes later.

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Wow Savage, that sucks. I can't imagine having to go back to dial up, guess I'm spoiled. Here's hoping you can get an upgrade in your area soon!!!

tpb221 said:

I use a connect card like you, never had problems with the usage though, and it's more then fast enough to muti-table poker. DSL will be however be much faster then the connect card for downloading and watching stuff like poker videos.

Good luck on the felts.

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My brother used to use a connect card, he had Verizon. He now uses DSL when at home and the Verizon card when on the road. He loves the DSL and has said a lot of good things about it.