Internet connection for poker? (and some cousin stuff)

ditpoker

I need to sort myself out with a new internet connection. starting from scratch, i've no land line, nothing, no connection.

Am i best to stump for eircom and get a strong connection via landline, or would something like broadband in a box like clearwire do the job? anyone know anything about "perlico"??

flushje

Defo go for a hard line connection, I know iPoker has major issues with wireless connections since the update.

tylerdurden94

ditpoker wrote: »

I need to sort myself out with a new internet connection. starting from scratch, i've no land line, nothing, no connection.

Am i best to stump for eircom and get a strong connection via landline, or would something like broadband in a box like clearwire do the job? anyone know anything about "perlico"??

No stay away from all that broadband in a box. UPC (NTL) is the way to go, i take it that you have a tv line? They use the one line for all of their TV/Broadband/Phone connections so no need to stump up for a telephone line. They have imo the best broadband available, customer service is a bit shoddy but for value for money they are top class http://www.upc.ie/internet/

Hope that helps.

ditpoker

flushje wrote: »

Defo go for a hard line connection, I know iPoker has major issues with wireless connections since the update.

perlico is hardline, right?

RoadSweeper

NTL or Eircom are the way to to.

zuroph

Smart telecom if u can get em, no download limits, and good speeds, no torrent throttling (which NTL are guilty of), and no disconnect. apparently ntl send a reset package regularily and can interupt gaming (not poker, video games stuff).

pgodkin

dude def go for hard line it will be cheper in the long run, asi have heard one or two people may have damaged things (laptops, phones, pets, loved ones)when faced with connection issues during hands

carfax

zuroph wrote: »

Smart telecom if u can get em, no download limits, and good speeds, no torrent throttling (which NTL are guilty of), and no disconnect. apparently ntl send a reset package regularily and can interupt gaming (not poker, video games stuff).

I'm with Smart too and found their customer service fairly good whenever I've had problems in the past.

I have bad experiences with NTL and eircom (through TV and internet respectively) but maybe things have gotten better with them.

zuroph

yip, smarts customer service is way better, and they have the forum for help too. been with them for years.

tylerdurden94

zuroph wrote: »

Smart telecom if u can get em, no download limits, and good speeds, no torrent throttling (which NTL are guilty of), and no disconnect. apparently ntl send a reset package regularily and can interupt gaming (not poker, video games stuff).

Lies

They dont throttle anymore.

20meg download no cap, awesome!

dannydiamond

flushje wrote: »

Defo go for a hard line connection, I know iPoker has major issues with wireless connections since the update.

I have digiweb and have never had any disconnect probs on ipoker or any other network.

hotspur

Bah with a title like Internet connection for poker? (and some cousin stuff) I was hoping half of it was a question about Internet connection for poker and the other half was similar to:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055424114

Sirtoyou

hotspur wrote: »

Bah with a title like Internet connection for poker? (and some cousin stuff) I was hoping half of it was a question about Internet connection for poker and the other half was similar to:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055424114

LOL some serious modding over there.

DeadMoney

I got 02 mobile broadband for €13 per month on the student offer. I exeeded my 10GB download monthly limit in about 1 week downloading music, films etc. Then they told me that they would be charging me 2c per MB of downloads after this. So I stopped downloading anything and just used it to browse the web and play poker. Anyway little did I know that by even playing poker or browsing the web I was still technically downloading files constantly and yesterday I get stuck with a bill of €280 in exceeded costs. :eek:
The 02 broadband is now in the bin and I'm back to having no broadband provider. Ooops!

tylerdurden94

DeadMoney wrote: »

I got 02 mobile broadband for €13 per month on the student offer. I exeeded my 10GB download monthly limit in about 1 week downloading music, films etc. Then they told me that they would be charging me 2c per MB of downloads after this. So I stopped downloading anything and just used it to browse the web and play poker. Anyway little did I know that by even playing poker or browsing the web I was still technically downloading files constantly and yesterday I get stuck with a bill of €280 in exceeded costs. :eek:
The 02 broadband is now in the bin and I'm back to having no broadband provider. Ooops!

Ouch

zuroph

how could u not know that any use of the internet is downloading information?!

DeadMoney

zuroph wrote: »

how could u not know that any use of the internet is downloading information?!

I knew I was still downloading info to my server and stuff but I thought this was just small files and would only cost a small amount extra. It was completely retarded of me really, and my housemate's have already slagged me senseless. :mad:

zuroph

my cousin managed to do this with his mobile, 850 euro in 3 days..

dK1NG

dannydiamond wrote: »

I have digiweb and have never had any disconnect probs on ipoker or any other network.

Same here, never had any issues with disconnect.