The Sky Poker thread

[GreekStein]

A friend of mine had exactly same problem constant disconnections so he banned hisself from the site

I'd rather just resolve the issue or have him not play there anymore but good to know it's not only my dad its happening to

Hi, I have seen a few threads on the Technical Queries board over on Sky Poker asking for help on similar issues. A few of us have tried to help out, with occasional success. My first question would be is your dad accessing Sky Poker over a wireless connection?

At work at the moment on my mobile but I'll check the thread later.

Hi Aaron,

Many thanks for your help.

Yes we do use a wireless internet connection at home.

Cheers,
Cos

[Machka]

Hi Aaron,

Many thanks for your help.

Yes we do use a wireless internet connection at home.

Cheers,
Cos

In that case the first thing I would do is to take the wireless network out of the equation.  I have found that the Sky Poker software to be reliant on a solid connection and throws up a network error box at the first sign of a network blip.

Is it possible to connect the laptop to the router / modem directly using an ethernet cable?  One usually comes with the router.  I'm not sure how techie you are so not sure what to explain.  You should be able to plug the ethernet cable into the laptop and into the router, disable the wireless on the laptop and the internet should be working so you can play on Sky Poker for a while and see if it still has the network errors.

Another thing to try while still on wireless is run a speedtest and pingtest at: www.speedtest.net and www.pingtest.net

Speed isn't really all that important but the ping stats will be.  I've just run a test on mine and got:



Packet loss should be zero and the other figures should be low too.

[pokerfan]

Hi Aaron,

Many thanks for your help.

Yes we do use a wireless internet connection at home.

Cheers,
Cos

In that case the first thing I would do is to take the wireless network out of the equation.  I have found that the Sky Poker software to be reliant on a solid connection and throws up a network error box at the first sign of a network blip.

Is it possible to connect the laptop to the router / modem directly using an ethernet cable?  One usually comes with the router.  I'm not sure how techie you are so not sure what to explain.  You should be able to plug the ethernet cable into the laptop and into the router, disable the wireless on the laptop and the internet should be working so you can play on Sky Poker for a while and see if it still has the network errors.

Another thing to try while still on wireless is run a speedtest and pingtest at: www.speedtest.net and www.pingtest.net

Speed isn't really all that important but the ping stats will be.  I've just run a test on mine and got:



Packet loss should be zero and the other figures should be low too.

Machka i get unable to test packet loss any ideas ?

[Machka]

Machka i get unable to test packet loss any ideas ?

That's really bad. 

Packet loss should be zero and if it's not then there is some sort of problem. 

I do ocassionally get the unable to test packet loss error so either try it again over the next day or so or manually pick a server to run the test on.

When you load the pingtest website instead of clicking the big Begin Test button hover over the green star and pick Newbury or Maidenhead and see if the pingtest runs sucessfully from those.

[pokerfan]

Machka i get unable to test packet loss any ideas ?

That's really bad. 

Packet loss should be zero and if it's not then there is some sort of problem. 

I do ocassionally get the unable to test packet loss error so either try it again over the next day or so or manually pick a server to run the test on.

When you load the pingtest website instead of clicking the big Begin Test button hover over the green star and pick Newbury or Maidenhead and see if the pingtest runs sucessfully from those.

Tried it several times from each server still no joy.

[Machka]

Tried it several times from each server still no joy.

Despite saying before that failing the packet test is terrible there may be a logical reason behind it.  When I recently had my Virgin Media cable modem upgraded I too would fail the packet test.  It was due to a setting on the cable modem called "Flood Control" which stopped lots of the same message being sent to it.  In this case the ping test is trying to send 250 messages which my modem just ignored until I switched Flood Control off.

You could have a dig around your ADSL modem settings, I presume, and see if there is a similar setting.

On a positive note the other figures for ping and jitter are great!

[TightEnd]

Sky Roller and Bounty Hunter tonight

Luke Schwarz the studio guest on Ch 865 too....

[TightEnd]

Tonight's Bounty Hunter at 8pm is now £10,000 guaranteed

£22 buy in, satellites from as little as £4.80 all day

[TightEnd]

and there appears to be a new UKOPS on the way, with events appearing in the lobby

8pm 27 Dec Event 1 £10k gtd £110 buy in with 1rb/1a

8pm 28 Dec Event 2 £10k gtd Double stack £110 buy in

8pm 29 Dec Event 3 £25k gtd Bounty Hunter  £110 buy in

8pm 30 Dec Main Event £50k gtd £220 buy in

I am sure tikay will fill us in with more details when they are released

[TightEnd]

Current Jackpot total £5800

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Main Events and Mini Events Schedule for tonight

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[titaniumbean]

Where's the list of countries you can/can't access sky poker in? can't find it in the help/support section.

nb I want the list of where you can play not what countries you can create an account from. ta

[tikay]

Where's the list of countries you can/can't access Sky Poker in? can't find it in the help/support section.

nb I want the list of where you can play not what countries you can create an account from. ta

Technically, I believe the list would be, logically, identical. I was able to play from the USA, though, & possibly many other domains, but I fancy the official reply would be as per "where you can create an Account for". As a Company, SB&G are a bit socks up to the knees on these things.

Here's what the relevant page actually says.

We accept customers based in any of the following countries:
 
United Kingdom
Ireland
Bulgaria
Cyprus
Finland
Gibraltar
Greece
Sweden
 
Due to our products/services being prohibited and/or restricted by local laws we do not currently accept new accounts from any other countries.

[titaniumbean]

ah reeeet yeah I could only find that list, and as I played on sky in America I thought there might be two lists, if not no biggie will see when I go to Prague if I can log on. Ta

[Skippy]

At the SkyPoker 6max DTD thing I cashed one of the side events: http://www.dusktilldawnpokerclub.com/result-info.php?id=2395.

Tighty said at the time I'd be got in touch with about my prize which was a ticket to one of the SkyPoker online events. No one has got in touch. Can someone have a look please?

[TightEnd]

At the SkyPoker 6max DTD thing I cashed one of the side events: http://www.dusktilldawnpokerclub.com/result-info.php?id=2395.

Tighty said at the time I'd be got in touch with about my prize which was a ticket to one of the SkyPoker online events. No one has got in touch. Can someone have a look please?

I think I said you would be entered into the event, and your details were passed in. To my jnowledge you were entered into the event. I will check later in the week when I am home