online poker and bad internet connection

Jam-Fly

How does everyone else deal with this? I have eircom broadband but it constantly get's disconnected.

Anyone have any reccommendations? New provider? Does anybody play most of their internet sessions at an internet cafe, as this is something I've seriously considered doing.

BloodyDeath

can u get access to ntl. proper and i personaly have never had a problem. with any online stuff. E20 a month i think i pay

Tony_Montana

3 is pretty good

BloodyDeath

just saw this on gumtree thou it mite help.

http://www.gumtree.ie/dublin/69/40196369.html

RichieLawlor

I've got the 7 Meg eircom broadband at Home and I can't ever remember it disconnecting, also got the 1 Meg clearwire on the girfriends house it's pretty good aswell

Irish Iron

RichieLawlor wrote: »

I've got the 7 Meg eircom broadband at Home and I can't ever remember it disconnecting, also got the 1 Meg clearwire on the girfriends house it's pretty good aswell

sick brag about having a girlfriend?

eddiehead

Jam-Fly wrote: »

How does everyone else deal with this? I have eircom broadband but it constantly get's disconnected.

Anyone have any reccommendations? New provider? Does anybody play most of their internet sessions at an internet cafe, as this is something I've seriously considered doing.

I have Eircom & I never had any issues up until recently with all these hacking shenanigans or whatever it was, its usually fine.

OilBeefHooked2

I have Eircom BB and have been having connection problems reguarly(every evening after 7.30) for the last 8-10 weeks but lately last week or so it has improved. There is very little if anything they can about it, I've had 2 call outs from engineers in that time and the 1st guy checked all the connections and did a line test and said everthing was fine but it wasn't, the latest guy claims that it was a hacking issue where Eircom servers were been overloaded which they have traced and has now been resolved, also I have to say I have Eircom BB for the last 5-6 years and this is the first and only problem I've had with them.

elshambo

Jam-Fly wrote: »

How does everyone else deal with this? I have eircom broadband but it constantly get's disconnected.

Anyone have any reccommendations? New provider? Does anybody play most of their internet sessions at an internet cafe, as this is something I've seriously considered doing.

I switched to NTL
One problem, lasted 30 secs:eek::D
Its been class!

When on Eircom (had the NEVER USED bug infested 4OD on PC for a while)
i used to have trouble the odd time

Had a period (a while ago)of about 4 weeks where it just went 10 or so times at really bad (poker) times

5 times lost connection when deep (as in DEEP:mad:) into tournis
never reconneted, blinded out:mad:
couple of times when on final 2 tables:( (need a smiley for crying)

And people wonder why ive a -ROI :rolleyes:

david-k wrote: »

I have Eircom BB and have been having connection problems reguarly(every evening after 7.30) for the last 8-10 weeks but lately last week or so it has improved. .

At least one of your neighbours is downloading films/tv shows etc every night , eating your connection (you are sharing with up to 30 neighbours)

Jam-Fly

david-k wrote: »

I have Eircom BB and have been having connection problems reguarly(every evening after 7.30) for the last 8-10 weeks but lately last week or so it has improved. There is very little if anything they can about it, I've had 2 call outs from engineers in that time and the 1st guy checked all the connections and did a line test and said everthing was fine but it wasn't, the latest guy claims that it was a hacking issue where Eircom servers were been overloaded which they have traced and has now been resolved, also I have to say I have Eircom BB for the last 5-6 years and this is the first and only problem I've had with them.

yup, that's basically the same story as me. Hopefully it will be sorted out soon

TripleAce

I use Eircom as well. There is a dedicated thread for the recent issues:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055608998

Hank Scorpio

ring eircom 1890260260 , thats the broadband support number

NTL can be good or very choppy, do NOT go with three mobile internet, and also playing in internet cafes isnt the smartest idea, packets can be sniffed so your details could easily be stolen

It may be something simple such as a broken line filter, you shud post the exact problem in the broadband forum

Zab

TripleAce wrote: »

I use Eircom as well. There is a dedicated thread for the recent issues:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055608998

I was going to post this too. Changing over to another DNS provider should solve your problems. It appears that it's eircom's DNS servers that go down at ~7:30.

big_iain

Nickyod was telling me of www.opendns.com

It solved his problems.

Can't recommend as i didn't switch and battled through with Eircom.

3Mb service rarely down. can't complain apart from the price