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This sounds interestring. Maybe we can figure this out. For example, I use time warner cable, and I plug the cable directly into my alienware laptop (i don't use wireless in otherwords). I have not disconnected once in all of 2015. Once or twice the internet was down in my entire area so that is not the bows fault so not really a disco. Also, once or twice a month I disconnect temporarily, but then my connection is restored within 15 seconds and I stay in the hand every time and never get booted. I know there are people with discos cause i see it a lot. Anyone else use twc and have such luck as me? It has literally made me money cause I NEVER disconnect and others do a plenty.

Everyone uses the same ISPs. They are essentially monopolies. Im on Comcast and have no issues for FWIW.

I am with cox and no issue's.

i had a day this week where i disconnected a cpl times within a 15 minute span but it lemme rejoin the majority of my tables before i got kicked but it wasnt a internet prob on my end. it happens once in a great while for me and im on charter which imo is much better than comcast which is great when it works but used to go out in my area quite frequently when i had it. seems like this has been goin on forever in this thread and the majority of the time its bovadas fault, think its just something we gotta bare with. aggrivating yes but definitely worth it to play on their site

ATT, using wireless. Usually have 1 disconnect every 2 sessions or so when I 4-table. This has been going on for almost a month now. Usually happens toward the 3-4 hr. mark.

Interesting, never considered appliances could affect your WIFI.

Come Bovada. I like the 4 table max, I like the anonymous tables, I like the ability to see people's holecards in the hand history....

I don't like how the Time Bank glitch is still a thing. When I push the time bank button, I assume it's going to start the time bank once my original 30 seconds are gone. I shouldn't have to panic that after I push it, it's not going to activate my time bank. I don't use card catcher either. Please fix this.

Those of you using wireless, try broadcasting a 5 Ghz channel instead of the default 2.4Ghz. I had a ton of issues with the 2.4 Ghz standard network even after upgrading my router, modem and internet plan. I switched to 5 Ghz and I wen't from terrible internet and disconnects to perfect internet with maybe one disconnect in the past 3 months, which was on my ISP's end.

Wireless house phones, microwaves, appliances run on wavelengths that can interfere with 2.4 Ghz wireless networks, leading to ping spikes, slow speeds and frequent disconnects.

If your router is old you won't be able to make a 5 Ghz channel.

question for you donkament guys: which tournaments are the best value to spend my points on? fwiw I have 11k points and am a midstakes cash player, if that's relevant.

^i would spend them all towards the buy-in for the 162 today

dont quite have 16k points..

that and i have other plans for today. any other suggestions?

In addition to what you are saying I think that Comcast (I don't know about other providers) purposely distributes routers with weak signals. I think that maybe they do that to reduce the chance of interference in places like apartment buildings and to make it difficult for neighbors to share internet service. I could easily see how household appliances could interfer with that signal.

I've had to get a wifi extender with an access point connection to get a strong signal.

We're supposed to be upset that Bovada suspects he is colluding and is investigating it before sending him money?

Nice first post.
More this. Not saying he's colluding, just that investigations of collusion are a good thing, not a bad thing.

usually the poster is leaving out some details

but if the poster is 100% completely innocent, yes, sorry to hear. But, i don't think innocent accounts get closed to often

It also doesn't sound like that was the start of the conversation. I expect there were several emails exchanged before that point, but I might be wrong.

FFS, I got disconnected twice in 4.5 hours. The first time was an hour into it. The last right at the end. This is seriously limiting my hours and profits. The first time I disced. I had 350 BB/ 180BB's on 2/4 tables.

My router and stuff is set up downstairs in the office. My monitors are set up upstairs. There is a WIFI extender in the living room between the office and where I have my desk, the office is directly below me.

I was thinking about getting a hardwire connection but the wires going out the office, through the hall, up the stairs, to my room seems like a hassle. I'd have to arrange the wires so it's not all over the floor and stairs. Does anyone know how much it would cost to run a cable all the way from the office to upstairs? I'm guessing about 50-60 ft. of cable is needed.

Maybe I'll get another WIFI extender between the living room and my room.
Can anyone suggest a good wireless router that's easy to set up? My current NetGear is a pain to set up and their support is terrible.

What do you guys think I should do? These disconnects are affecting my profits and my volume and it's happening too often to ignore. If it only happened once or twice a week, I'd probably be OK with it. This is so tilting.

Whatever you do...
STAY AWAY FROM NETGEAR, the support team is based in India and they try to get you to pay for customer care after the first 3 months. On top of that, they try to upsell you any chance they get... which wouldn't terrible if they were actually competent. The suggestions I got from them on multiple occasions lets me know they are completely clueless. If you do a Google search for "NetGear customer support India", you'll see links to scams and stuff. I actually had a NetGear rep from Cali. tell me they're were some fraudulent complaints filed w/ their support. He told me that they think some of the instructions in the NetGear boxes have the wrong support # printed on them. Crazy stuff but believe me, it's legit. I have purchased NetGear products for over 10 years but it's time to find a new brand. I've also requested a chargeback after I found out the complaints online and how terrible their service is. They're just reading out of a manual and have no clue what they're talking about. They made me get a 6month plan for 49.99 just for helping me set up the extender after it required a restart. Then they said they'd upgrade me to a year for 39.99 more. I then find 3 charges on my card for 49.99, 39.99 and 89.99. Plus they were clueless and I had to argue with the manager to get a refund for all 3. Save yourself the headache and time, trust me on this. F'n scumbags. Then they blow up your phone trying to convince you to stay before they finally refund and stop calling.

If you check out Amazon you can find ethernet cables that are 50 feet long for about $10.

If you are using an extender, hardwiring it makes a big difference because extending it purely through the wireless function causes it to lose a lot of its bandwidth due to the fact that it has to communicate with the router as well as your computer via wifi.

Hardwiring the externder through its access point would make a big difference but of course hardwiring your computer would be even better.

me personally, I would do 5-6 LO8 4pm tourneys for 20+2 OR 3-4 30+3 PLO8 tourneys at 8pm. these run daily.

these are different as the LO8 is a small field and easy to win (you prolly only have to scoop 2 hands to place) and short but you are guaranteed no more than 300$ for 1st place.

PLO8 is a disturbingly popular tourney format for bovada. It 5k guaranteed making it a more pop variant than the PLO bovada tourneys. itll pay over 1k for 1st and likely 2nd

I know from your post hist you are a nl player. that's okay, i'm a limit player.

youll thank me later once you see the O8 fields

but think about field sizes when you use your points

dont do wireless at all costs. more discos and im not a computer geek but less secure?

I have a modem plugged into an outlet and a cord connecting to my laptop and an hdmi cable connected to tv. that's it. do it.

here's one thing ill bet you didn't think of. Call the cable company and find out if you have the latest modem. They have no incentive to replace older dated, weak modems as a customer you have to call. This happen to me a couple years ago and was a simple free fix. I'd post a pic but the good modems are tower like rather than a flat square imo? I never disco. not bragging just trying to help cause i can literally 'feel' the frustration of people who are disconnecting.

[QUOTE=LETIGRA;48608493]dont do wireless at all costs. more discos and im not a computer geek but less secure?

I have a modem plugged into an outlet and a cord connecting to my laptop and an hdmi cable connected to tv. that's it. do it. I have the same setup, except just a monitor via HDMI not my TV. The disconnect issue does only occur when i am not hard wired connection, so i am assuming its just comcast wifi sucking the dick of life and the **** ass modem they provide.

[QUOTE=bigdongbrad;48609753] yup. i have no idea tho not good with computer stuff. My modem is a foot high if yours is an inch high it's maybe not the newest?

are you saying you only disco on wireless? if so, don;t do that lol.

i simply would not play if I was discoing 1-2 times a day. that is not cool and this is for real money.

look for competeing internet service providers and find one that doesnt disco bovada. oh, one more hint ill bet you didn't think of: my apt complex has time warner cable as part of the rent package. this is ****ty and they giveyou their weakest speed? so i pay an extra 9 bucks a month or so for faster speed and so i can watch netflix while playing etc lol

It's better to get your own modem and stop paying monthly equipment fees for an inferior product that you'll end up paying more for than buying a better modem of your own. Some companies don't allow it, though.

You might want to read up on your router a bit. Some routers project the signal horizontally...not vertically. So, if your router is sitting upright and projects the signal horizontally it will have trouble reaching your computer up stairs. You can help this problem by actually laying your router down on its side so that the signal will project upwards towards your computer up stairs.

Also, renaming the SSID on your router from the SSID provided to a more specific personalized name will help your computer recognize the router more easily and prevent it from trying to connect to your nextdoor neighbor's router. The computer can sometimes get confused when there are multiple WIFI networks around with similar names like,"Cisco1234, linksys3245, etc." A more specific name will help prevent that from happening.





With that being said, you guys keep misunderstanding what the problem is for a lot of us...there are no connection issues and we're still getting booted from tables. I'll get booted from a Bovada cash table while my ACR tables run perfectly smooth and I'll get booted from my ACR tables while Bovada tables run smooth. I'll disappear from Bovada and ACR tables while watching the action continue flawlessly amongst my opponents. That's not a connection issue. I'll click "Troubleshoot problems" even though my connection is fine and instantly get a message back asking "What network problems are you having?" That's because there is nothing wrong with my connection.

To make it even more bizarre these glitches started happening on both sites the same week for me. Hard wired, wireless....happened on both for me.

Yeah, and it's slower, too. If you buy one it's faster and it pays for itself in 2 years. I'm on Timer Warner, too. So, you should be allowed to use your own.




It was in the manual for my router. I never heard about it before I read about it in the manual. It explained that my router projects the signals out of the front and back, horizontally, and that if I had a computer on the second story that I should lay the router down and point the front towards the computer on the second story to make it connect more efficiently.


Yea, but I was never disconnected from the internet.



I never suggested that winning money had anything to do with the disconnections. I think it if were the sites kicking players off of tables that it would be random. Perhaps, they don't have the server space so they boot players off of tables randomly? That would make sense because the sites are getting more and more players every month. The timing for when my issues began would be consistent with this explanation, because it started happening the second week of the WPN Million Dollar tournament promotions and during GSOP on Bovada...which, are both tournament series that I'm sure attracted additional players to both sites and increased the traffic above average.

ahhh.. you learned to play nice,,, good stuff lc.

we are just two low post counters talking about stuff in most popular us internet thread. lets set a date to continue this discussion next sun?

sorry for misquoting you on the winning money= disco thing, there is just so many theories floating around.

honestly discos are just a part of the internet i guess. you are magnifying things. we are not that important. I challenge you to study 50 hours of poker this month and see if you still feel same way..