After you have started up the game and the program has downloaded all of the necessary information, there is no reason why you need your internet connection until you are ready to upload the results.

If you lose your connection in the middle of the game, it will not crash the game or interfere in any way. Just finish the game and reconnect when done. If you can not reconnect after you finish, you can close the game and open it up later in order to upload the results.

I've done this dozens of times when playing on a laptop out of town and I'm forced to use a hotel's 56k connection at $0.50/min for local calls.

Jon, STL Trash