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DR with the worst internet in Latin America
The DR is certainly not Colombia.
My service with Cable Del Norte is very reliable, but still very costly per mbps
What do you pay for that? CLARO ran fiber by my development many years ago and still does not offer fiber in my development.
Obviously I don't know what Claro did or did not near your development, but based on what I've seen/witnessed/heard, is that they are not and will not be present in all locations, as for example some other provider will be. We had a fast fiber optics connection in a residencial in POP while a barrio where my sister-in-law lives Claro is not present at all due to other ISPs being there already. Turned out that we got, in that barrio, more then double the speed with fiber optics with the same price than we paid to Claro. We found out about this by asking neighbors what ISP they have. So one particular ISP may never be present in all locations due to competitions and whatnot. That does not mean that the area in question would be served worse.
I have Cable Norte and pay $30/mo. I get 12Mps up and 3Mbps down per SpeedTest. I don't get the need for all these high speeds everyone else has(?). I have zero problem watching HD movies on Netflix and YouTube. Webpages on most sites load instantly.
Working in tech, from home, moving a metric ton of data on a daily basis. I'm guessing there are quite a few others in that boat, getting the needed upstream bandwidth usually means getting a lot more downstream than you actually need.
I really don't understand internet that much but, other than bragging rights, it seems to me that only techies, gamers, or those with multiple people in the household would need those high speeds I see quoted(?).
Yes....completely agree. And if you check more than one of those boxes (my household does), those higher speeds are a necessity. If you're only streaming to one device at a time, browsing sites, etc...15/3 will get it done no problem
2,940 RD$ for Phone Number and Fiber + taxes (20%)
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living here for many years this makes perfect sense why use it keep the people down
I also have Delancer in Sosúa, and currently posting Download Mbps 40.73 and Upload Mbps of 0.83. However, there are frequent, some predictable, some not apagones. I live in a rental and do not have an invertor. This is why I keep turning down offers to work remotely.
My wife has starlink down there in Cap Cana and she tested this am, she got 302/74 and only $55/USD a month.