Is Braodband Required for Online Play

JustMac

Hoping to invest in a laptop in the near future and expect that most of its usage could be for online poker, though I haven't played online before. I would imagine that you would need braodband to ensure you don't get disconnected at crunch moments.

Anyone here play using dial-up and if so is it relaible or is there any disadvantages to doing so?

dingle

I've been playing for the past few months quite regularly on a dial-up connection (no broadband in my part of the country :mad: ) and have had no problems. That is playing on Paddy Power and PokerStars. One thing though, I don't multi-table. If your playing more than one table at a time the increased load may cause problems on dialup

Lplate

Out where I live in the wild mountainy region of Kerry we may have broadband by 2050. I've been playing online with dial-up for nearly 2 years and have had only one major problem in that time.

Einstein

No you really don't need broadband tbh.
I played through PPoker a couple times on my laptop through the IR port in my phone...9.6bps or something crazy?? and it was grand!!! Killed some time at work too
There's very little resources required for the poker software.

JustMac

Thanks for the update all. Was talking with one of the guys here at work during lunch and he confirmed that he uses dial-up without problem. In Kerry (Tralee) myself and think broadband is available but when I work with computers I don't think I would need it at home, especially if I can play poker without it!

Lplate wrote:

I've been playing online with dial-up for nearly 2 years and have had only one major problem in that time.

Any detail on what the major problem was? Did you lose out on some money as a result?

kincsem

When I used my Eircom dial-up phone line for poker
(1) The line rental was large.
(2) The call charges were in the hundreds.
(3) About a year ago lost 30 minutes when about 120th of the last 300 players of the $215 Sunday night PokerStars (about 2,000 starters). When I got back in my stack was blinded away to a few thousand .... and I got AA when off-line (read hand-history later). About a grand lost/not won.
(4) A few days later in a $20 PokerStars tournament I was all-in with AA and the line went again.
wtf ffs f****** b******* etc etc etc
I had the line dis-connected (might as well make it official) and now use broadband (Ripwave modem from Irishbroadband). Line is on 24/7/365 with few problems. And they dropped the price from 30 to 25 to 18 a month. But you need to close to one of their transmitters (I am) to get good service (and I do).

I figure the total cost per month now is less than the Eircom line rental.

Vamos

I'm on dialup at home at the moment, PPP, Stars and Befair to 3/4 tables run fine as long as you are not browsing the web at the same time.
Prima network seem fine as well though that was only one tabling.
Ultimate Bet was heavier on bandwidth though and I've had problems sometimes, Party the odd time too.

Hughesy

I use my mobile!!!!:)

Hectorjelly

Make sure you get a package from Eircom where you pay a set amount per month, the service is much much better and its a lot cheaper.

peeko

Even with broadband you are going to have the occasional problesms. Stick with Dialup unless like kincsem you can get the ripwave setup

Scotty #

JustMac I've used dial-up and broadband (Irishbroadband 2Mb) there's little difference but when I installed a wireless router I had nothing but problems especially with pokerstars...almost no connection at all. So unless you want to get broadband anyway, I'd stick to dialup.

Culchie

I got in Broadband in on trial and was slower than dial up, so sent it back.

I have IOL anytime dial up, 180 hours for €22.99.

ntlbell

As long as your dialup connection is stable there's no difference at all, the amount of bandwith used for a session is minimal.