Internet options

What are the options for internet in Mexico? Is there high speed or just dial up?

[Mexican R and B]

It is according to where you locate. We are in SMA and have high speed DSL from the cable company. It is dependable and very fast.
Mexican R and B

In Patzcuaro, Michoacan, we have whatever you need. High-speed, dial-up, etc. The high-speed runs me about $30 a month. And I rarely have problems.

Also, Patzcuaro is the best location in Mexico. Everybody agrees on this, but they prefer keeping it a secret.

See posting elsewhere on this forum with the subject line of Upgrade to Lakeside 2.0

"maddeningly and politely inefficient." You mean like life in general in Mexico.

[StrykerGT2001]

In Puebla, our 2 options for high speed Telmex/Prodigy Infinitum and Megacable. Here is what I've found:

Telmex is 512KB down/128KB up for around $40 US a month. We actually have a real phone line (in this area of mexico, a lot of people have these little grey antennas on their roof, so their home phone service is actually cellular to some tower off in the distance), so we get the advertised speed. The service came with a decent wireless router/DSL Modem combo. We have this at our ministry house, and it works OK. My major gripe is that 128KB up is BARELY enough to run our Vonage IP phone over, and if anyone is using the internet, the quality suffers. But its paid for as part of our rent, so it will take a lot of pain for me to pay for another service.

Megacable offers a lot of speed options, whereas with Telmex the only reasonably priced option simply increases your download speed, not the upload. I have Megacable at my apartment, and it works pretty good. As an added bonus, if you just get cable modem service you get basic analog cable free (its a quirk of how most cable systems are engineered, the cable company usually can't stop it). For a "normal" US speed type connection (1500 KB download/512KB upload) Megacable was charging around $50 US/month. Now if you order other cable services through them, this rate goes down and they do have lower speed options, I just didn't price them out.

If you are moving here permanently you should definitely look into getting an IP phone; you basically get a US phone number and unlimited long distance inside the US (and really cheap long distance to everywhere else) for around $27 US a month. Getting a land line in Mexico IMHO is pretty worthless unless you are running some kind of business; prepay cell service is cheap and easy here, and the land lines are anything but.

Sorry if alot of this is nerd-speak, i was a network engineer with IBM until last year, so it comes out naturally. Let me know if you need a translation