'Internet in Uruguay' Technology

Internet in Uruguay

Lee (201.221.2.79) -

Unlike someplaces in Latin America, there is competition in the internet field in Uruguay and you have some choices:

Antel Data (the phone company) and through its various resellers offers DSL

Dedicado offers fixed wireless connections.

Netgate also offers dsl service.

Dedicado offers a variety of speeds with equal upload/download speeds... ie: 128k/128k. A 384k/384k connections costs about $80/mo.

Antel's DSL connections have lower upload speeds, ie: 512k/128k. Their 768k/192k costs about $80/mo.

Both provide installation in about a week.

Dedicado has not problem admitting when the service has a problem and then fixing it.

Reply #1 TexasGal from Dallas, Texas (Contact Member) -

That's good to hear. Are there wireless hotspots? Can the traveler bring her laptop and be able to connect while she's in Uruguay?

Reply #2 Lee from Pocitos (Contact Member) -

The international airport has free wireless. Montevideo Shopping and Punta Carratas Shopping both have free wifi in their food courts. There are usually a handful of people making use of the wifi in the malls.

A fair number of small restaruants and bars also off free wifi as do many hotels.

I have not seen anyone that charges for wifi.

Wifi is pretty popular with regular people... from my apartment my computer usually shows 10 to 12 or more wifi routers active. Fortunately most of the people are smart enough to put security on them so they are not open. Sometimes one with a sid of "Free Wifi" shows up.

There also seems to be a cybercafe on every street corner and they don't all have wifi, but will usually let you plug your laptop in.

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