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Originally Posted by thomas.t
When I am playing at pokerstars more often than not I have only 70-96 percent connection to pokerstars server, and I just cant play with that bad connection, I cant discover betting tells and it also tilts me.
Only hours when I have good connection is in the middle of the night.
This gotta be because of slow internet, right? I have this problem even when I play in an internet cafe that usually have good speed.
I am starting to believe that stick is better than ADSL because so ****** many people are sharing the same cable.
What is your opinion?j I am a novis on internet.
I am no tech pro so correct me if i am wrong but i believe there are two important parameters to internet speed/quality. First and most obvious is download speed which is important when downloading stuff like videos/torrents/youtube etc.
But there is also something called lag/ping/latency which is important when one need instantaneous response like for poker software, chat & remote desktop etc. Don't know how to explain it but I guess you can compare the latency to the speed of the signal and download speed to the size of the signal.
Not sure what is consider grindable and whats is not but it should preferably be below 300 m seconds. Over 700-1000 m seconds is very bad and will give you problems when grinding. You can check it here
http://www.speedtest.net/. Obviously the location of the server matters so pick a location where you think the poker servers a located.
Surprisingly I often find air cards has less latency than adsl. Dont ask me why cause I have no clue. Maybe others have different experiences.