places in the world with fast internet, low cost of living, and interesting cult
I have been living in Ecuador for about a month now, and the quality of the internet available here is a major problem. My girlfriend runs a business teaching English over Skype, and about 33% of her video chat lessons are interrupted or ruined by the poor internet service available here. This is not sustainable for her business, so we'll probably be moving, but we're just not sure where.
Rather than continue to swim upstream by doing insane things like signing up for the top tier plans from all internet providers in our town... we'd like to move somewhere where fast internet is the norm. The level of internet available in the US would be more than sufficient for our purposes: we just basically need guaranteed Skype video chats.
Based on actual user results from speedtest.net, here is a list of the countries with the best internet. (You can also break those countries down by city on http://netindex.com !) I bolded the countries that are currently top expat retirement destinations (reasonable proxy for cheap + interesting).
1 Hong Kong 46.06 Mbps
2 Singapore 40.50 Mbps
3 Andorra 38.05 Mbps
4 Lithuania 36.93 Mbps
5 South Korea 35.61 Mbps
6 Taiwan 35.34 Mbps
7 Japan 33.30 Mbps
8 Luxembourg 32.19 Mbps
9 Switzerland 31.13 Mbps
10 Macau 30.67 Mbps
11 Netherlands 30.01 Mbps
12 Sweden 28.00 Mbps
13 Romania 28.00 Mbps
14 Latvia 27.92 Mbps
15 Iceland 27.40 Mbps
16 Bulgaria 25.78 Mbps
17 Denmark 25.27 Mbps
18 Republic of Moldova 23.74 Mbps
19 Portugal 23.21 Mbps
20 Belgium 21.82 Mbps
21 Norway 20.75 Mbps
22 Aland Islands 20.47 Mbps
23 Finland 20.12 Mbps
24 United Kingdom 19.25 Mbps
25 Germany 18.66 Mbps
26 Russia 18.20 Mbps
27 Ukraine 17.54 Mbps
28 Malta 17.42 Mbps
29 Estonia 17.31 Mbps
30 Hungary 17.24 Mbps
31 Czech Republic 17.06 Mbps
32 Canada 16.18 Mbps
33 France 15.99 Mbps
34 United States 15.92 Mbps
35 Slovakia 14.81 Mbps
36 United Arab Emirates 14.26 Mbps
37 Liechtenstein 14.23 Mbps
38 Spain 13.81 Mbps
39 Austria 13.78 Mbps
40 Mongolia 12.80 Mbps
41 Australia 12.62 Mbps
42 Georgia 12.58 Mbps
43 Kazakstan 12.45 Mbps
44 Monaco 12.43 Mbps
45 Israel 12.04 Mbps
46 Faroe Islands 11.99 Mbps
47 Isle of Man 11.92 Mbps
48 Poland 11.76 Mbps
49 Slovenia 11.67 Mbps
50 New Zealand 11.56 Mbps
51 Jersey 11.41 Mbps
52 Thailand 11.17 Mbps
53 Ireland 11.12 Mbps
54 Uruguay 10.17 Mbps
55 Aruba 10.05 Mbps
56 Vietnam 10.04 Mbps
57 Chile 9.51 Mbps
58 Kyrgyzstan 9.49 Mbps
59 Guernsey 9.36 Mbps
60 Macedonia 9.27 Mbps
61 China 8.96 Mbps
62 Turkey 7.60 Mbps
63 Trinidad and Tobago 7.56 Mbps
64 Cyprus 7.55 Mbps
65 Kuwait 7.54 Mbps
66 Tajikistan 7.49 Mbps
67 Rwanda 7.43 Mbps
68 Mexico 7.40 Mbps
69 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 7.33 Mbps
70 Papua New Guinea 7.29 Mbps
71 Greece 7.11 Mbps
72 Gibraltar 7.08 Mbps
73 Brazil 7.04 Mbps
74 Qatar 7.01 Mbps
75 San Marino 6.96 Mbps
76 Madagascar 6.92 Mbps
77 Namibia 6.71 Mbps
78 Saudi Arabia 6.70 Mbps
79 New Caledonia 6.67 Mbps
80 Armenia 6.57 Mbps
81 Guam 6.50 Mbps
82 Serbia 6.25 Mbps
83 Italy 5.97 Mbps
84 Bermuda 5.93 Mbps
85 Ghana 5.38 Mbps
86 Maldives 5.36 Mbps
87 Ethiopia 5.35 Mbps
88 Croatia 5.34 Mbps
89 Belarus 5.30 Mbps
90 Jamaica 5.14 Mbps
91 Greenland 5.08 Mbps
92 Kenya 4.88 Mbps
93 Puerto Rico 4.86 Mbps
94 Mali 4.86 Mbps
95 Montenegro 4.85 Mbps
96 Albania 4.77 Mbps
97 Libya 4.77 Mbps
98 Oman 4.75 Mbps
99 Malaysia 4.64 Mbps
100 Cape Verde 4.59 Mbps
101 Barbados 4.50 Mbps
102 Reunion 4.49 Mbps
103 Zimbabwe 4.44 Mbps
104 Bosnia and Herzegovina 4.43 Mbps
105 Cayman Islands 4.43 Mbps
106 Laos 4.32 Mbps
107 Virgin Islands, U.S. 4.27 Mbps
108 Mauritania 4.26 Mbps
109 Northern Mariana Islands 4.20 Mbps
110 Argentina 4.14 Mbps
111 Morocco 4.08 Mbps
112 Colombia 4.07 Mbps
113 Bahamas 4.04 Mbps
114 Ecuador 4.01 Mbps
115 Brunei Darussalam 3.94 Mbps
116 Panama 3.89 Mbps
117 Philippines 3.86 Mbps
118 South Africa 3.86 Mbps
119 Azerbaijan 3.75 Mbps
120 Fiji 3.67 Mbps
121 Uganda 3.65 Mbps
122 Grenada 3.65 Mbps
123 Cambodia 3.64 Mbps
124 Guadeloupe 3.61 Mbps
125 Paraguay 3.48 Mbps
126 Bahrain 3.47 Mbps
127 Angola 3.33 Mbps
128 Martinique 3.33 Mbps
129 Sri Lanka 3.31 Mbps
130 Saint Lucia 3.31 Mbps
131 Honduras 3.22 Mbps
132 Dominican Republic 3.14 Mbps
133 Iraq 3.04 Mbps
134 Dominica 3.00 Mbps
135 Tunisia 2.97 Mbps
136 Saint Kitts and Nevis 2.97 Mbps
137 El Salvador 2.95 Mbps
138 Peru 2.93 Mbps
139 Guatemala 2.87 Mbps
140 Jordan 2.85 Mbps
141 Tanzania 2.83 Mbps
142 India 2.74 Mbps
143 Swaziland 2.68 Mbps
144 Afghanistan 2.67 Mbps
145 Costa Rica 2.67 Mbps
146 Virgin Islands, British 2.59 Mbps
147 Lesotho 2.58 Mbps
148 Belize 2.54 Mbps
149 Mozambique 2.48 Mbps
150 Indonesia 2.45 Mbps
151 Lebanon 2.44 Mbps
152 Turks and Caicos Islands 2.42 Mbps
153 Nigeria 2.37 Mbps
154 St. Vincent and Grenadines 2.32 Mbps
155 Myanmar 2.27 Mbps
156 Anguilla 2.27 Mbps
157 Zambia 2.25 Mbps
158 Bhutan 2.25 Mbps
159 Nicaragua 2.17 Mbps
160 Antigua and Barbuda 2.16 Mbps
161 Cote D'Ivoire 2.14 Mbps
162 Palestinian Territory 2.11 Mbps
163 Seychelles 2.02 Mbps
164 Malawi 1.95 Mbps
165 Nepal 1.93 Mbps
166 Iran, Islamic Republic of 1.93 Mbps
167 Venezuela 1.89 Mbps
168 Haiti 1.88 Mbps
169 Pakistan 1.83 Mbps
170 Suriname 1.82 Mbps
171 Sudan 1.79 Mbps
172 Mauritius 1.53 Mbps
173 Bangladesh 1.45 Mbps
174 Egypt 1.35 Mbps
175 Syrian Arab Republic 1.25 Mbps
176 Senegal 1.20 Mbps
177 Botswana 1.17 Mbps
178 Bolivia 1.17 Mbps
179 Algeria 1.12 Mbps
180 Uzbekistan 0.86 Mbps
181 Benin 0.69 Mbps
182 Congo, The Democratic Republic of the 0.60 Mbps
The raw source data for all this stuff is available here -- http://netindex.com/source-data/ -- and normally I'd be crunching that data, but a 1.5GB download is prohibitively large at the moment.
I guess my real question is which countries near the top of this list are interesting and cheap.
PS: I'm aware that the optimal "fast internet + cheap" answer is probably Kansas City, but it's just not interesting enough
Rather than continue to swim upstream by doing insane things like signing up for the top tier plans from all internet providers in our town... we'd like to move somewhere where fast internet is the norm. The level of internet available in the US would be more than sufficient for our purposes: we just basically need guaranteed Skype video chats.
Based on actual user results from speedtest.net, here is a list of the countries with the best internet. (You can also break those countries down by city on http://netindex.com !) I bolded the countries that are currently top expat retirement destinations (reasonable proxy for cheap + interesting).
1 Hong Kong 46.06 Mbps
2 Singapore 40.50 Mbps
3 Andorra 38.05 Mbps
4 Lithuania 36.93 Mbps
5 South Korea 35.61 Mbps
6 Taiwan 35.34 Mbps
7 Japan 33.30 Mbps
8 Luxembourg 32.19 Mbps
9 Switzerland 31.13 Mbps
10 Macau 30.67 Mbps
11 Netherlands 30.01 Mbps
12 Sweden 28.00 Mbps
13 Romania 28.00 Mbps
14 Latvia 27.92 Mbps
15 Iceland 27.40 Mbps
16 Bulgaria 25.78 Mbps
17 Denmark 25.27 Mbps
18 Republic of Moldova 23.74 Mbps
19 Portugal 23.21 Mbps
20 Belgium 21.82 Mbps
21 Norway 20.75 Mbps
22 Aland Islands 20.47 Mbps
23 Finland 20.12 Mbps
24 United Kingdom 19.25 Mbps
25 Germany 18.66 Mbps
26 Russia 18.20 Mbps
27 Ukraine 17.54 Mbps
28 Malta 17.42 Mbps
29 Estonia 17.31 Mbps
30 Hungary 17.24 Mbps
31 Czech Republic 17.06 Mbps
32 Canada 16.18 Mbps
33 France 15.99 Mbps
34 United States 15.92 Mbps
35 Slovakia 14.81 Mbps
36 United Arab Emirates 14.26 Mbps
37 Liechtenstein 14.23 Mbps
38 Spain 13.81 Mbps
39 Austria 13.78 Mbps
40 Mongolia 12.80 Mbps
41 Australia 12.62 Mbps
42 Georgia 12.58 Mbps
43 Kazakstan 12.45 Mbps
44 Monaco 12.43 Mbps
45 Israel 12.04 Mbps
46 Faroe Islands 11.99 Mbps
47 Isle of Man 11.92 Mbps
48 Poland 11.76 Mbps
49 Slovenia 11.67 Mbps
50 New Zealand 11.56 Mbps
51 Jersey 11.41 Mbps
52 Thailand 11.17 Mbps
53 Ireland 11.12 Mbps
54 Uruguay 10.17 Mbps
55 Aruba 10.05 Mbps
56 Vietnam 10.04 Mbps
57 Chile 9.51 Mbps
58 Kyrgyzstan 9.49 Mbps
59 Guernsey 9.36 Mbps
60 Macedonia 9.27 Mbps
61 China 8.96 Mbps
62 Turkey 7.60 Mbps
63 Trinidad and Tobago 7.56 Mbps
64 Cyprus 7.55 Mbps
65 Kuwait 7.54 Mbps
66 Tajikistan 7.49 Mbps
67 Rwanda 7.43 Mbps
68 Mexico 7.40 Mbps
69 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 7.33 Mbps
70 Papua New Guinea 7.29 Mbps
71 Greece 7.11 Mbps
72 Gibraltar 7.08 Mbps
73 Brazil 7.04 Mbps
74 Qatar 7.01 Mbps
75 San Marino 6.96 Mbps
76 Madagascar 6.92 Mbps
77 Namibia 6.71 Mbps
78 Saudi Arabia 6.70 Mbps
79 New Caledonia 6.67 Mbps
80 Armenia 6.57 Mbps
81 Guam 6.50 Mbps
82 Serbia 6.25 Mbps
83 Italy 5.97 Mbps
84 Bermuda 5.93 Mbps
85 Ghana 5.38 Mbps
86 Maldives 5.36 Mbps
87 Ethiopia 5.35 Mbps
88 Croatia 5.34 Mbps
89 Belarus 5.30 Mbps
90 Jamaica 5.14 Mbps
91 Greenland 5.08 Mbps
92 Kenya 4.88 Mbps
93 Puerto Rico 4.86 Mbps
94 Mali 4.86 Mbps
95 Montenegro 4.85 Mbps
96 Albania 4.77 Mbps
97 Libya 4.77 Mbps
98 Oman 4.75 Mbps
99 Malaysia 4.64 Mbps
100 Cape Verde 4.59 Mbps
101 Barbados 4.50 Mbps
102 Reunion 4.49 Mbps
103 Zimbabwe 4.44 Mbps
104 Bosnia and Herzegovina 4.43 Mbps
105 Cayman Islands 4.43 Mbps
106 Laos 4.32 Mbps
107 Virgin Islands, U.S. 4.27 Mbps
108 Mauritania 4.26 Mbps
109 Northern Mariana Islands 4.20 Mbps
110 Argentina 4.14 Mbps
111 Morocco 4.08 Mbps
112 Colombia 4.07 Mbps
113 Bahamas 4.04 Mbps
114 Ecuador 4.01 Mbps
115 Brunei Darussalam 3.94 Mbps
116 Panama 3.89 Mbps
117 Philippines 3.86 Mbps
118 South Africa 3.86 Mbps
119 Azerbaijan 3.75 Mbps
120 Fiji 3.67 Mbps
121 Uganda 3.65 Mbps
122 Grenada 3.65 Mbps
123 Cambodia 3.64 Mbps
124 Guadeloupe 3.61 Mbps
125 Paraguay 3.48 Mbps
126 Bahrain 3.47 Mbps
127 Angola 3.33 Mbps
128 Martinique 3.33 Mbps
129 Sri Lanka 3.31 Mbps
130 Saint Lucia 3.31 Mbps
131 Honduras 3.22 Mbps
132 Dominican Republic 3.14 Mbps
133 Iraq 3.04 Mbps
134 Dominica 3.00 Mbps
135 Tunisia 2.97 Mbps
136 Saint Kitts and Nevis 2.97 Mbps
137 El Salvador 2.95 Mbps
138 Peru 2.93 Mbps
139 Guatemala 2.87 Mbps
140 Jordan 2.85 Mbps
141 Tanzania 2.83 Mbps
142 India 2.74 Mbps
143 Swaziland 2.68 Mbps
144 Afghanistan 2.67 Mbps
145 Costa Rica 2.67 Mbps
146 Virgin Islands, British 2.59 Mbps
147 Lesotho 2.58 Mbps
148 Belize 2.54 Mbps
149 Mozambique 2.48 Mbps
150 Indonesia 2.45 Mbps
151 Lebanon 2.44 Mbps
152 Turks and Caicos Islands 2.42 Mbps
153 Nigeria 2.37 Mbps
154 St. Vincent and Grenadines 2.32 Mbps
155 Myanmar 2.27 Mbps
156 Anguilla 2.27 Mbps
157 Zambia 2.25 Mbps
158 Bhutan 2.25 Mbps
159 Nicaragua 2.17 Mbps
160 Antigua and Barbuda 2.16 Mbps
161 Cote D'Ivoire 2.14 Mbps
162 Palestinian Territory 2.11 Mbps
163 Seychelles 2.02 Mbps
164 Malawi 1.95 Mbps
165 Nepal 1.93 Mbps
166 Iran, Islamic Republic of 1.93 Mbps
167 Venezuela 1.89 Mbps
168 Haiti 1.88 Mbps
169 Pakistan 1.83 Mbps
170 Suriname 1.82 Mbps
171 Sudan 1.79 Mbps
172 Mauritius 1.53 Mbps
173 Bangladesh 1.45 Mbps
174 Egypt 1.35 Mbps
175 Syrian Arab Republic 1.25 Mbps
176 Senegal 1.20 Mbps
177 Botswana 1.17 Mbps
178 Bolivia 1.17 Mbps
179 Algeria 1.12 Mbps
180 Uzbekistan 0.86 Mbps
181 Benin 0.69 Mbps
182 Congo, The Democratic Republic of the 0.60 Mbps
The raw source data for all this stuff is available here -- http://netindex.com/source-data/ -- and normally I'd be crunching that data, but a 1.5GB download is prohibitively large at the moment.
I guess my real question is which countries near the top of this list are interesting and cheap.
PS: I'm aware that the optimal "fast internet + cheap" answer is probably Kansas City, but it's just not interesting enough
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I'm not sure how reliable those speeds are. The Cayman Islands are listed at 4.43 Mbps. When I visited last month, I didn't have any internet trouble at all. We've also looked seriously at Belize and I heard the service was fine there even though it's ranked near the bottom of the list you posted.
+1 to what Chenda said about eastern Europe
+1 to what Chenda said about eastern Europe
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I had internet problems in Thailand. Guatemala--internet was fast and reliable in Antigua, less so in Lake Atitlan. YMMV.
Measuring mbps isn't enough--you also have to consider how far you are from the person you're talking to. This can sometimes make the connection slow.
It's a shame to hear that about Ecuador--I'd always considered that a viable international option. How's the air pollution there? That was a major issue in Guatemala.
Measuring mbps isn't enough--you also have to consider how far you are from the person you're talking to. This can sometimes make the connection slow.
It's a shame to hear that about Ecuador--I'd always considered that a viable international option. How's the air pollution there? That was a major issue in Guatemala.
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You can get a very fast connection here in Mexico city. A very fast connection will also be very expensive although it has been improving. I remember only a few years ago a 1 megabit connection was considered very fast. I think now the normal connection is about 4 perhaps 5 megs so I'm very curious where they get that 7 above.
In the suburbs, the average speed drops quite fast since there are few providers even with a large population available to use the service. When I lived in Cuautitlán (one suburb of over 100,000 people in the greater mexico city metropolis) supposedly the provider cablecom had internet service, but when I went to their office one block from the apartment they told me that they didn't offer internet to my municipality (their website didn't mention that minor detail.)
If you're out of luck you're stuck with service provided by TELMEX (one of Carlos Slim's businesses) They provide very poor customer service. I had many problems with them and would suggest looking for an alternative. I went to their offices and called support many times for an issue and they wouldn't help me.
In the suburbs, the average speed drops quite fast since there are few providers even with a large population available to use the service. When I lived in Cuautitlán (one suburb of over 100,000 people in the greater mexico city metropolis) supposedly the provider cablecom had internet service, but when I went to their office one block from the apartment they told me that they didn't offer internet to my municipality (their website didn't mention that minor detail.)
If you're out of luck you're stuck with service provided by TELMEX (one of Carlos Slim's businesses) They provide very poor customer service. I had many problems with them and would suggest looking for an alternative. I went to their offices and called support many times for an issue and they wouldn't help me.
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Thanks for the suggestions everyone.
I agree the list isn't perfect, but I think it's correlated with the answer, and I think it's the best list out there.
Ultimately I think it's my girlfriend that gets to define "interesting".
I'm happy if the internet is fast, the food is good, it's easy to get a full night's sleep, and there's enough people around to do at least one social activity like crossfit, bridge, surfing, hiking, kickboxing, whatever.
I think I'm going to start lobbying for Asia, since it has the best food and internet in the world.
PS: Christopherjart, if you want to work out who's dragging Mexico's average up, check this out, a breakdown by city and ISP. Everyone here in Cuenca thinks there's only 4 internet providers, but thanks to that website I figured out that there's a fifth provider -- and it's the best one! -- but its only customers are the major banks and government offices. It's kind of a fun mystery hunt working backwards from the raw data.
I agree the list isn't perfect, but I think it's correlated with the answer, and I think it's the best list out there.
Ultimately I think it's my girlfriend that gets to define "interesting".
I'm happy if the internet is fast, the food is good, it's easy to get a full night's sleep, and there's enough people around to do at least one social activity like crossfit, bridge, surfing, hiking, kickboxing, whatever.
I think I'm going to start lobbying for Asia, since it has the best food and internet in the world.
PS: Christopherjart, if you want to work out who's dragging Mexico's average up, check this out, a breakdown by city and ISP. Everyone here in Cuenca thinks there's only 4 internet providers, but thanks to that website I figured out that there's a fifth provider -- and it's the best one! -- but its only customers are the major banks and government offices. It's kind of a fun mystery hunt working backwards from the raw data.
Any have a login account at speedtest.net? I wonder if you could browse an area map around you and see who has fast connections, and who the isp is.
Reliable internet is available even in some of the bottom countries on the list... I mean the average mbps of my state is in the 7mb/s range, but I have 30mb/s.
Eastern EU is great, but out in the countryside it's still DSL territory. But it is very reliable in my experience.
Reliable internet is available even in some of the bottom countries on the list... I mean the average mbps of my state is in the 7mb/s range, but I have 30mb/s.
Eastern EU is great, but out in the countryside it's still DSL territory. But it is very reliable in my experience.
Unless you are referring to a city state (like HK or Singapore) it really doesn't matter what that list says. It's city/area dependent.
At my house, the local wired provider advertised, and even by phone will tell you you can 10MBps down, but after hooking up we found in fact we can only get ~768k with low enough error rates it's stable. That is the only wired option.
Less than 20mi from cell phones quit working and it is a BIG dead zone. As we found in 2011, there is cell reception, and even decent data availability on parts of the Inca Trail in the middle of nowhere Peru.
20mi the other way is downtown Boise, which had early LTE rollout and you can get pretty much as big a pipe as you want to pay for.
At my house, the local wired provider advertised, and even by phone will tell you you can 10MBps down, but after hooking up we found in fact we can only get ~768k with low enough error rates it's stable. That is the only wired option.
Less than 20mi from cell phones quit working and it is a BIG dead zone. As we found in 2011, there is cell reception, and even decent data availability on parts of the Inca Trail in the middle of nowhere Peru.
20mi the other way is downtown Boise, which had early LTE rollout and you can get pretty much as big a pipe as you want to pay for.
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This is a great example of an issue where anecdotal evidence is much more reliable than statistics.
I think we could just collect our own Speedtest data from various parts of the world. These would vary from ISP to ISP and plan to plan, but at least get you a sense of what you're likely to experience:
NYC: 8 mbps (Clear)
Rural New York : 3 mbps (Time Warner)
Antigua, Guatemala: 5 mbps
Lake Atitlan, Guatemala: 0.9 mbps
Bangkok: 1.5 mbps
I think we could just collect our own Speedtest data from various parts of the world. These would vary from ISP to ISP and plan to plan, but at least get you a sense of what you're likely to experience:
NYC: 8 mbps (Clear)
Rural New York : 3 mbps (Time Warner)
Antigua, Guatemala: 5 mbps
Lake Atitlan, Guatemala: 0.9 mbps
Bangkok: 1.5 mbps
Eastern EU is great, but out in the countryside it's still DSL territory.
In my corner of eastern EU, the countryside is nowadays mostly UMTS/LTE (mobile) territory, even though the government still insists on spending EU money digging cable into ground for "regional development".
Anywhere mobile connectivity is widely adopted, the choice is often between speed and mobility, which makes the Speedtest.net mean results quite useless. I have the option of 150 Mbit/s cable at home, but I choose my ~3-4 Mbit/s 3G instead -- it's fast enough, it's a little cheaper and I can take it with me anywhere I go.
Also, even though the data is interesting, I wonder if there's some selection bias involved-- aren't you more likely to go test the speed if you're having connectivity trouble?
In my corner of eastern EU, the countryside is nowadays mostly UMTS/LTE (mobile) territory, even though the government still insists on spending EU money digging cable into ground for "regional development".
Anywhere mobile connectivity is widely adopted, the choice is often between speed and mobility, which makes the Speedtest.net mean results quite useless. I have the option of 150 Mbit/s cable at home, but I choose my ~3-4 Mbit/s 3G instead -- it's fast enough, it's a little cheaper and I can take it with me anywhere I go.
Also, even though the data is interesting, I wonder if there's some selection bias involved-- aren't you more likely to go test the speed if you're having connectivity trouble?
@akratic For the Skype sessions, it's just as important (if not more so) to consider QoS practices enforced by the connection provider. Do they discriminate between different types of traffic? Does VoIP get higher or lower priority compared to other noise? Skype doesn't require much in terms of bandwidth, but latency can often break the conversation.
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@akratic ok the results make no sense! I had the hardest time getting a good internet provider that wasn't TELMEX for internet when I lived in Cuautitlán and yet it is showing as number 2 after cd juarez.
I have my connection now through Cablevision which doesn't operate in Cuautitlán. I had tried several times to get service from Axtel when I lived there, but there were NEVER any lines available with internet access for my area and they'd let me know. I was told that if I'd sign a contract for a phone line they'd give me priority for internet later but no guarantee, but since I was frugal I told them no. I wanted internet and the telephone would just be an extra for me.(in fact I only pay for internet and cell now)
They(axtel) finally had one available after I had moved back to distrito federal (mexico city proper) of course then I didn't care. I had had cablevision in D.F. before I moved to Cuautitlán and I was happy to go back to their good service.
I think my ex-roommate is using telmex for internet there.
The only thing that I can imagine is that the results aren't separating the results for Cuautitlán Izcalli from Cuautitlán (they are neighboring municipalities in the greater mexico city metropolis) but on the map they are showing Cuautitlán in the right place so I guess I'll just have to scratch my head and wonder. :-/
I pay 210 pesos a month for a 3mb connection (no usage limit). I could pay several times that for a several times faster connection, but I really don't need it unless my roommates start doing a lot of downloading and so far they have done basic webbrowsing.
I have my connection now through Cablevision which doesn't operate in Cuautitlán. I had tried several times to get service from Axtel when I lived there, but there were NEVER any lines available with internet access for my area and they'd let me know. I was told that if I'd sign a contract for a phone line they'd give me priority for internet later but no guarantee, but since I was frugal I told them no. I wanted internet and the telephone would just be an extra for me.(in fact I only pay for internet and cell now)
They(axtel) finally had one available after I had moved back to distrito federal (mexico city proper) of course then I didn't care. I had had cablevision in D.F. before I moved to Cuautitlán and I was happy to go back to their good service.
I think my ex-roommate is using telmex for internet there.
The only thing that I can imagine is that the results aren't separating the results for Cuautitlán Izcalli from Cuautitlán (they are neighboring municipalities in the greater mexico city metropolis) but on the map they are showing Cuautitlán in the right place so I guess I'll just have to scratch my head and wonder. :-/
I pay 210 pesos a month for a 3mb connection (no usage limit). I could pay several times that for a several times faster connection, but I really don't need it unless my roommates start doing a lot of downloading and so far they have done basic webbrowsing.
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My sister spent 6 months in China teaching English to ... middleschoolers(?). She has a BA in English Litt (not sure if that was an actual requirement or merely helpful). I think travel, room, and a stipend was paid. She also taught privately to upper class kids which was [much?] better paid. While this was local and not via skype, maybe this is an alternative solution? It was certainly enough to make a living on.
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Same thought here: I would think that crime is a bigger issue than internet speed. South Africa has the highest murder rate in the world. When I was in Ecuador, safety was a HUGE issue. In the big cities, every little store has an armed guard, there is barbed wire everywhere, and crime is everywhere. At least that is what it was back when I was there.