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Cellular internet with comcell

I just got a cellular modem with comcel. It cost 160000cop with 2 weeks of unlimted use. After than, it is 5000 a day if you buy one day or 80000 for a month (all unlimited use)

It averages over 100KiloBYTES / second and I get downloads with bittorrent up to 200kb/s.

It's way faster and a bit cheaper in the internet in my house and works anywhere a cellphone works.

By Chriscan on May 31, 2009, 11:16 in Friendly Talkzone.

Chriscan (☼Travelguide writer) says on May 31, 2009, 11:47:

oops, thee were some posts on this, I misspelled the search. Anyway, I'm really happy with this.

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Chriscan (☼Travelguide writer) says on May 31, 2009, 13:02:

I live out in the suburbs, and last year, the only internet I could get was 10000 a month at 30KB/s. I was happy I could even get that.

I can watch youtube in HD and that is good enough. To me, anything faster than that is nice but not required.

Are we talking Kilobytes or Kilobits. I hate ISPs for confusing things. I always talk about Kilobytes. For example, my cable internet in Canada advertises 10000Kilobits/ second but that transfers to 2000 Kilobyte/s

I sure wouldn't call 200KB/s ultra slow. For Colombia, it's pretty damn good.

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pedro (☼Travelguide writer) says on May 31, 2009, 13:22:

Chris, thanks for the update. I need to sign up to one of these services soon.

Any chance you could do a speed test on http://myvoipspeed.visualware.com/ and let us know the result?

Art Brode posted some speed tests a few months back, and they were kind of underwhelming. It would be good to see the speeds you're getting.

Also, what city are you in? Depending on the provider, sometimes they only offer the fastest speeds in the main cities. For example, Tigo has 3.5G services in the principal cities, but not in Santa Marta for example. You still get service in Santa Marta, but it's a big step down in speed. I'm guessing Comcel has the best coverage, nationwide.

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Chriscan (☼Travelguide writer) says on May 31, 2009, 18:27:

I couldn't get the speed test to work - there was an error. I can tell you that it varies a lot. There seems to be some pauses at time with some sites and this happens most in the evening at peak usage times. As far as internet in Colombia goes, it's pretty darn good and a torrent download with lots of peers averages 150 KB/s.

I am very happy with it.

There are some modem options and I have the Alcatel modem. It looks like I can connect two computers at the same time but I will have to wait a week until I am in Santa Marta to see if that is so.

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CodyIntl says on May 31, 2009, 19:05:

Cheaper than in your house? really? I find that hard to believe unless you were getting majorly bent over.
I pay 55,000 COP per month for dsl through ETB. Don't know the numbers as far as speed but its just as fast
as any cable internet I've had in the states and faster than any cellular internet can provide.

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larryrn says on Jun 3, 2009, 07:45:

Remember the speed depends on where you are. Go into some rurual areas and the speed drops back to less than dialup speeds - goes back to GPRS which is 1G - if at all working.. It's fine if you can get along with 200-400kb and are in populated areas..

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Chriscan (☼Travelguide writer) says on Jun 3, 2009, 08:44:

Well, like I said, I live in a bario that is new and way out on the edge of the city. There was only one company offering service when I got it so I had to bend over and take it. When I moved in, nobody offered service.

So far Bogota peaked at 230KB/s (something like 2000Kb) the slowest was about 100KB/s
Chia peaked about 150KM and was as slow as 40KB.

Cartagena is the next stop.

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