GENERAL RANT - BLUE SQUARE SOFTWARE

[GiMac]

See above.

p.s. Oh and they are so confident of their service that they dont tie people in, its just a 30 days notice agreement.

[Shogun112]

I know that quite often The_Duke has been having problems getting onto ipoker sites...  It is quite mad, and I have been trying to help him to sort it out... 

One thing I suggested was to look at a setting inside his router called the "MTU"...  The MTU for ISP"s and routers is so variable...  It is is a setting that your home ADSL router needs to be set to make the packets send properly..

After a lot of play, I set his MTU to 1500 because I had read from google searches that other people had been talking about the best setting for Pipex..

Anyway, setting it to 1500 cured his problem...  It changed what was a very high chance of NOT getting onto an iPoker software to 100% every time getting onto the site...  When I say that I mean....  When you start poker software one of the first things it does is get the full list of games for you to choose from..  That was taking a ridiculous time maybe 5 or 10 mins to get that list...  Then when he got to use it, there were huge amounts of drop outs dring his game...

The one part of this that makes it even more mad is...  One day it happened again and the cure was to set the MTU back to the original 1458 setting..  But that made lots of other things stop working because it was not right for Pipex, but the iPoker stuff worked...

the next day, iPoker would not work again, and changing the MTU setting to 1500 again cured this problem..  There is nothing to explain this change..  It makes me wonder if iPoker are messing with some settings at their end..  But I cannot explain...  All I know is The_Duke now has a workaround if it happens again..!!

Hope that explanation of my findings makes sense to someone and also helps them to find a workaround..!!!

Cheers

Carl..

[kinboshi]

Thanks Carl - I knew you"d be able to explain it a lot better than I could.

I don"t suppose there"s an easy tutorial for people to change their MTU settings is there?  I guess it"s router-specific?

[HaworthBantam]

This may give a pointer http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/tweak2.htm

[kinboshi]

As long as people note their current MTU settings, there"s no permanent damage they can do to their connection is there?

[HaworthBantam]

Good question Daniel.

I"ve never changed MTU settings, but I have changed other settings on domains and networks - each time I would always make a note of original settings, just in case.

This should be no different, make notes of the original settings and if the connection suffers then go back to the old settings.

[lukybugur]

the next day, iPoker would not work again, and changing the MTU setting to 1500 again cured this problem.

MTU Settings can be changed by logging into your router"s IP address
http://192.168.1.1  on most routers with your username and password.

If username and passwords are unknown, try the following defaults;

D-Link and Linksys Routers - username: admin and password: admin

Linksys routers are pre-set to 1500 by default and should be OK. Apparently even some of the newest D-Link ones though are 1400 but they can be changed.

Netgear - username: admin and password: password

According to some of my geeky / techy forums, some Netgear Routers that are set at 1458 by default cannot be changed for some reason.

Belkin - username: admin or default and password: admin or password

Speedtouch - username: Administrator and password: leave blank and click OK

[kinboshi]

I wonder if anyone who"s been having problems with iPoker will have a go at this and then be kind enough to report back?

[lukybugur]

I"ll email two of the guys I know who have had problems in the hope that they"ll be willing to try it ...

[HaworthBantam]

Is there no problem in the world that can"t be solved by members of this forum...?  

[Shogun112]

LOL.  Dont count yer chickens...  It may not yet cure their problems..!!

If it does though, send the case of 1664 to APAT Cardiff for the attentio of Shogun..!!  LOL...  Jokin..

[kinboshi]

LOL.  Dont count yer chickens...  It may not yet cure their problems..!!

If it does though, send the case of 1664 to APAT Cardiff for the attentio of Shogun..!!  LOL...  Jokin..

Yes, he wants Stella.

[nosey-p]

Don't we all want Stella

[HaworthBantam]

Who"s Stella, have I met her ?

[nosey-p]

She is a French lady