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Internet in Uruguay
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| Internet in UruguayUnlike 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. |
|  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? |
| 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. |
| I can't imagine taking my laptop to the mall. But if that's what you do there, that's what you do. I'd be more comfortable at the cybercafe. Is there coffee there? |
| I agree... but at the mall its free and plenty of food and drink selections. Not sure the cybercafes have coffee. |
| That's great information to have. However, I'm a smoker and unless they allow smoking in the cafe or mall there is no way that I could do that. I would definitely have to pay for my services at home. But the information is good to know for future reference anyway. Thank you. |
| Uruguay recent outlawed smoking in all public places. |
| I know they just recently got wifi in the mall in my city. I was thinking who comes to the mall with a laptop but there was plenty people there with a laptop. I really don't like to walk around with a lot of valuable things with me. |
| Wow! No smoking in any PUBLIC places. I like it. How is it enforced? Are smokers fined or arrested? I'm all for smokers' rights to ruin their health, but their smoke doesn't know to stay away from my breathing area. |
| Wow! No smoking in any PUBLIC places. I like it. How is it enforced? Are smokers fined or arrested? I'm all for smokers' rights to ruin their health, but their smoke doesn't know to stay away from my breathing area. Smoking is an interesting discussion. Before the law, you couldn't eat anywhere or sit anywhere without someone smoking in your face. And I mean that literally. After the law was passed, we personally have not seen a single case of someone smoking where they shouldn't be. Not a Uruguayan anyway :-) Are they fined or arrested. Well, this is a small country and the only person I know who publicly flouted the law did so on a restaurant on 21 |
| part II.. the owner told the government to stick it and last time the country saw him, was on national TV being taken away to federal prison for an unspecified period. His restaurant is still for rent isn't it? The president is an Oncologist... get it!!! |
| Irv is correct before the law restaurants were a smog filled placed. With the new law it is simple, no one smokes in restaurants. They don't even try. In the outside patio areas they do smoke. You don't see mass arrests or fines. An interesting comparison might be taxis. In Costa Rica taxi fares are computed on the fly by the taxi driver. Sometimes they run the meters and give you a completely different price. Sometimes they don't run the meters and also give you an arbitrary price. Of course meter or not, the Costa Rica Taxi drivers never charge you the legal rate (or less). In Uruguay the Taxi drivers always run the meters. They always charge you the rate on the meter. I mentioned that to an Uruguayan and their response was "of course, it's the law". And, of course its the law in Costa Rica too (that the the Taxi drivers use their meters and charge the correct rate). |
| Wait, wait, wait. You lost me. If there's not smoking in public, how are people allowed to smoke on the patio? Or does the law only extend to the inside of the building? Lee, so is it a matter of level of enforcement and punishment? |
| I suspect the law only covers inside, though someone else might know more. I don't think it is an enforcement issue. |
| The law seems identical to laws in LA and Toronto, the only ones I've been exposed to repeatedly. Smoking is prohibited in enclosed public spaces. From memory, that is the airport, hospitals, clinics, restaurants, stores of all kinds, malls, etc. Like Toronto, I believe a restaurant can designate a smoking area if it is isolated from the no smoking area of the restaurant. Because of the weather and prices here, it's a no-brainer, financially speaking, to make that an outdoor section. Lee would know from sitting outside at the Costa de Azul, that's definitely a smoking section. This country has very little enforcement of any kind... that's why in 20 years, I only know of one person who got a speeding ticket... and we ALL speed, ALL the time... whereve traffic permits :-) I think the reason why people obey a law like this is peer pressure. Uruguayans care a lot about what other people think. I never met one who didn't... wife included. The concept of 'who cares' doesn't exist here. So if you're not supposed to do something, and it's a reasonable law, everyone obeys it. Dont get the idea from Lee's post that taxi drivers are saints. Yes, they run the meter and yes, they charge from the rate sheet, but they've got some crafty ways of running up that meter. The best one I know of is the one where they take you along the rambla from the city to pocitos, instead of cutting through the back of parque rodo. About 1 in 4 drivers will do that to me. But I always smile and pay... Compared to the rates in Toronto, it's just a harmless game. |
| Aha! Thank you for that insider information. I was getting the impression that the hacks were saints. Now I know that they're not. They take the scenic route to run the meter. California is a non-smoking STATE. No smoking in any public building anywhere. And in Los Angeles you cannot smoke at all on the beaches and, I think, parks. |
Comment #1603/12/09 11:38Rural east Colonia departmento | I've been a rural Dedicado subscriber for a bit over a year now. It works about 3/4 of the time and I pay 80 U$S a month for similar speeds to the modem I used in the UK during the early 1990s. The best download speed achieved so far was 31.8kb/s and I once hit a breathtaking 14.1 kb/s upload :-) OTOH, until 3G coverage finally reaches here its the only game in town so I grin and bear it. Smoking tobacco is forbidden in enclosed public spaces. The penalty for a breach seems to be a polite reminder not to do it. Soon after the law was introduced I happened to be staying at a small rural location in Soriano and noticed that the owner was smoking behind the bar. I gave him a jovial ticking off about it so he blew smoke at me to confirm that it was not tobacco that he was smoking :-) Patrick. |
| "Internet/Wireless Speeds & Costs as of 27 Feb 2010"
Hi, What are the best ISPs in Uruguay for the following areas: MVD in the Pocitos area Periapolis Punta del Este Jose Ignacio La Paloma? What upload/download speeds? Costs (in U$ or US$) Good enough for watching movies? video conferencing? Voice over IP? How is coverage? Consistent? Intermittent? How good is the wireless for Blackberry in these areas? Thanks! |
Comment #1802/28/10 09:10Rural east Colonia departmento | "Rural speeds"
Here in the campo I use a Dedicado wireless link. I'm supposed to get 128kB/s up and down but I actually get maximums of 31kB/s down and 9kB/s up. The connection is mostly reliable. This mega-slow connection costs me 90 U$S/month but IMV slow internet is better than no internet. |
| "internet access without having to sign a contract"
Since I am in Uruguay only two months a year, in order to access the internet without having to sign a contract last year I bought a U$75 USB device from Movistar (adapter? router?) which provided a "pay-as-you-go" system that worked rather well for me. However, it wasn't perfect... I had some issues related to the device's software not jiving with my notebook's operating system, which is Windows XP. Once I resolved this, I could make use of it but I was still bumped off quite regularly due to "traffic". Still, it worked and I was satisfied with it.This year I'm bringing a netbook (rather than a notebook) with me which has Windows 7 and I wonder if my Movistar USB thingy will work with it. I welcome suggestions... Thnx |
| "Unlimited internet without a phone line/ using movistar/claro usb for skype?"
So I am right in the middle of trying to arrange internet here. I went to Claro yesterday and they said they only had a 10gb per month maximum. Does anyone know if it is possible to get unlimited downloading without a phone line, which I have absolutely no use for?!Also can anyone report whether it is possible to voice skype (if not video skype) with one of the claro or movistar usbs. Can someone give me the bottom line advice on the cheapest, best way to get unlimited internet. Speed is less of an issue for me. Thanks so much and see y´all around the expat meetings. |
| "Get the Prepaid FIRST"
I believe they all offer an unlimited option. But I would first pick up a prepaid one and see if it meets your needs for Skype, and for your desired location. |
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