How Many Meg using Dongle?

cottlad

Just landed a job...... ugh...... a real job
Anyways, it's going to see me away from home a fair bit.  I still want to play teh pokerz so will be limited to using a dongle.  My questions are 3......
1) How many bytes (very approx) am i going to use by having the lobby open and playing 1 table?
2) Will there be a uniform increase in bytes used for every further table i open and if so, how many (approx?)
3) How does Sky Poker perform when using a dongle and will 4-8 tabling be an issue?

I'm asking because i want to get the right package.  I don't want an over useage charge like i got last month on my broadband of £194!  Thanks for any info.

donkeyplop

From my experiance you don't get good value using a dongle in terms of usage!

Also I would say you need to be in a 3g area at least, even then not sure about that many tables??

YOUNG_GUN

i used to use a dongle it was rubbish so went back to using wireless even though mum bought me year free of dongle unlimited

spornybol

just don`t use this dongle

http://yfrog.com/h8lqdrgj

cottlad

OK so say we are in a 3G area and coverage is good.
How many meg per hour is each table going to suck out of my allowance?

Can the tech guys offer any further info?

Machka

Hmmm, I did loads of tests using the web client a while back when convincing Sky Poker to undo the changes where tables and lobbies timed out and closed too quickly.

I'll see if I can run a test in a minute and I'll post here later.

I'm not on a dongle or wireless but I can get a rough idea.

Machka

One hour of usage by 1 table, 1 lobby (275 players) in the download client was about 10.2MB downloaded and 2.2MB uploaded.

I'd assume for each extra table opened it would would add a little less than this as you wouldn't have 2 lobbies open.

cottlad

Thanks for that Machka.  Very kind.
I'm guessing then 4 tables will probably suck up about 35MB/Hr total.  IOW the 1GB or even 3GB/month dongles probably wouldn't be enough.

tapeworm

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Thanks for that Machka.  Very kind. I'm guessing then 4 tables will probably suck up about 35MB/Hr total.  IOW the 1GB or even 3GB/month dongles probably wouldn't be enough.
Posted by cottlad

I was using a a Three dongle for at least 5 months came with 10gb free - used the flash version and two tabled - I barley even dented the allowence. ALthough I only play about 15 or so hours a week

Two tables was max it could handle and that was in London.

beaneh

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In Response to Re: How Many Meg using Dongle? : I was using a a Three dongle for at least 5 months came with 10gb free - used the flash version and two tabled - I barley even dented the allowence. ALthough I only play about 15 or so hours a week Two tables was max it could handle and that was in London.
Posted by tapeworm

I've played a 10 hours 8 tabling session on a dongle before, the speed themselves are not the problem just the total amount of data transferred, I don't think it's too bad tbh, wouldn't be surprised if the initialising bit at the start is the bulk of it.

Machka

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In Response to Re: How Many Meg using Dongle? : I've played a 10 hours 8 tabling session on a dongle before, the speed themselves are not the problem just the total amount of data transferred, I don't think it's too bad tbh, wouldn't be surprised if the initialising bit at the start is the bulk of it.
Posted by beaneh

The initialise of the web client would be bad as you're sucking down the whole flash client each time, the download client not such a problem.

There is also an updated download client in development that will reduce the data transferred hugely.

Another thing to consider is if you're online for a significant time you'll have anti-virus, windows update and who knows what else checking for updates in the background.