3G and other frustrations lol

[JL9]

Ok so I have my new plan. One of the questions i asked a few months back was whether 3G would be an issue for playing poker on your mobile device and was told it shouldn't be an issue. 

Wellll I have had a couple issues playing in terms of lag and got timed out in a tournament where I would have won, now luckily I grinded back and was able to make some money anyways but i am hoping it isnt the 3G. Also, as per many threads, the throttled down LTE doesn't start for a few days so I should still have my regular LTE right? I hope it is just in my head lol 

Also - I know there has been issues in response time with the moderators. I still haven't received my community bonus yet. I received a response after about 2 days saying I would be receiving it on my next cycle. So I inquired as to why it wouldnt be paid out when 99% of the other ones were credited. Well 2 days later, I get a response asking for the typical identification they need to verify an account.

Even though this was part of the same thread where I have done all of that already and just a reply to said thread. That is pretty frustrating considering the significant delays in response time.

Not sure why I would need to provide it again. I completely agree if i sent a new message, but not for this.

So maybe I'll just include it in the subject line everytime until this response issue gets cleared up.

Rant over.

[mtfolks]

Pokerstars website says their desktop client should work with a 56k dial up connection for what it’s worth. 

I’d assume that similar to online gaming that latency would be much more important than connection speed so I’d keep your device hooked up to LTE.

[GreatCanadian]

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@JL9 wrote:

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@GreatCanadian wrote:

I play online poker on Public Mobile 3g network and have zero issues. What poker sites are you using? 

GC 

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I use pokerstars 95% of the time and 888 the other 5%.

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I use pokerstars, but not 888. I do not have any issues with pokerstars at all. Haven't played in a month or so, but up until then it's been pretty troublefree. I don't change any settings.

GC

[JL9]

Thx @will13am

[will13am]

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@JL9 wrote:

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@will13am wrote:

@JL9, I don't play online poker, so I don't know whether latency, bandwidth or both are important?  If you need bandwidth only, put the phone on 3G.  If you need good latency, run on LTE.  If you need both, then put up some of the winnings on a full speed LTE plan.  BTW, I don't understanding why poker is a data demanding game.  It seems rather slow paced and not a race of any sort. 

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Good question. Anyone know which one is a bigger priority for online poker? Bandwidth or latency? Lol and how do you tinker with those settings for a Samsung S7 again?

@JL9, here you go,

https://support.bell.ca/Mobility/Smartphones_and_mobile_internet/Samsung-Galaxy-S7.how_to_change_the...

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[JL9]

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@will13am wrote:

@JL9, I don't play online poker, so I don't know whether latency, bandwidth or both are important?  If you need bandwidth only, put the phone on 3G.  If you need good latency, run on LTE.  If you need both, then put up some of the winnings on a full speed LTE plan.  BTW, I don't understanding why poker is a data demanding game.  It seems rather slow paced and not a race of any sort. 

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Good question. Anyone know which one is a bigger priority for online poker? Bandwidth or latency? Lol and how do you tinker with those settings for a Samsung S7 again?

[will13am]

@JL9, I don't play online poker, so I don't know whether latency, bandwidth or both are important?  If you need bandwidth only, put the phone on 3G.  If you need good latency, run on LTE.  If you need both, then put up some of the winnings on a full speed LTE plan.  BTW, I don't understanding why poker is a data demanding game.  It seems rather slow paced and not a race of any sort. 

[mtfolks]

I would strongly recommend against running a speedtest unless absolutely necessary. If you are still on LTE it could eat up 300-400 MB. Just my two cents. 

[JL9]

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@GreatCanadian wrote:

I play online poker on Public Mobile 3g network and have zero issues. What poker sites are you using? 

GC 

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I use pokerstars 95% of the time and 888 the other 5%.

[JL9]

Oh **bleep** lol. Just got home from work and used speed test by Ookla. My wifi was like 90 download 12 upload

My data was 30-40 download and less than 1 upload 😵. I'm hoping it is just area and maybe not the greatest signal. I will test out regular use over next few days to see if there is a difference etc.

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@computergeek541 wrote:

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@JL9 wrote:

Wellll I have had a couple issues playing in terms of lag and got timed out in a tournament where I would have won, now luckily I grinded back and was able to make some money anyways but i am hoping it isnt the 3G. Also, as per many threads, the throttled down LTE doesn't start for a few days so I should still have my regular LTE right? I hope it is just in my head lol 

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So the plan change has gone through but you're not sure if the throttling is in effect yet?  If that's the case, I beleive that the amount of time for the speed change is an "up to" or an estimate.  It might not take that exact amount of time each time.  When you are connected to the LTE networks, what are you speeds like?  If they are more signficantly more than the 3Mbps advertised speeds, the throttle isn't in effect for you yet.  I'm sure you're already playing around with the 3g and LTE network settings now and running various speed tests.

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[GreatCanadian]

I play online poker on Public Mobile 3g network and have zero issues. What poker sites are you using? 

GC 

[mynamejc]

You can run a speedtest to see if you're on LTE speeds or 3G. 3G would be throttled down to 3mbps. I can't imagine a poker game requiring more than 3Mbps unless its streaming video?

Maybe it's just the area you were in which had poor signal?

[computergeek541]

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@JL9 wrote:

Wellll I have had a couple issues playing in terms of lag and got timed out in a tournament where I would have won, now luckily I grinded back and was able to make some money anyways but i am hoping it isnt the 3G. Also, as per many threads, the throttled down LTE doesn't start for a few days so I should still have my regular LTE right? I hope it is just in my head lol 

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So the plan change has gone through but you're not sure if the throttling is in effect yet?  If that's the case, I beleive that the amount of time for the speed change is an "up to" or an estimate.  It might not take that exact amount of time each time.  When you are connected to the LTE networks, what are you speeds like?  If they are more signficantly more than the 3Mbps advertised speeds, the throttle isn't in effect for you yet.  I'm sure you're already playing around with the 3g and LTE network settings now and running various speed tests.