Who is your Internet Service Provider in Ecuador

vsimple wrote:

As for puntonet and netlife, from personal experience they are both good. CNT is also good and has the quickest customer service, as in they deal with an issue in less than 24hrs (personal experience).

Usually, an area will have CNT available (maybe fiber optic), and one more service provider. That's how it is in the capital. The only exception is the commercial district that has almost all providers servicing the area.

So, you have to find out which ISP is available in your GF neighborhood. if there are two providers offering fiber optic, then choose the one that has the closet hub to her house. Cables break all the time, and replacing them can take days/weeks to replace.

BTW: another option is TVcable (no personal experience).

Thanks, that's all very good advice. I'll be installing a mesh wifi network to cover her whole building (her mom is the landlady) and subsequently want to upgrade the bandwidth. that narrows the list of ISPs considerably down to 3.

vsimple wrote:

Congrats! And 50 Mbps is good for 4 people. As for the Fire-stick it’s meh in Ecuador but it’s functional. Well to be fair, other entertainment providers are also meh. Playstation Store for instance. With games, all titles are available for purchase. But for TV shows and movies one can’t even buy anything. I wanted to buy The Wire re-mastered, but it wasn’t possible.

Thanks!

Considering these folks were on 5 Mbps for the last 5 years, 50 is quite an upgrade. We were offered speeds up to 200Mbps, but currently that's overkill in this home (I guess in 5 years 200Mbps will be the norm) When I first met my girlfriend in 2016, she was using a sad old N300 wifi router, and her signal couldn't go downstairs. So google mesh wifi is quite the upgrade here.

True, Firestick is kind of meh, compared to the offerings in North America, but again, my girlfriend's family hasn't seen this techno-wizardry and subsists on broadcast TV (at least they've got a modern samsung flat screen). From their point of view, this is exciting

wanderer_t wrote:

So I changed to TVCable, which I was hesitant because my experience with them wasn't so good. However, according to a local friend, this depends on the neighborhood, which, it seems it was true. When I moved to Samborondon (the higher-end neighborhood) customer service was COMPLETELY different, as well as speed.

It's just how things are. In Quito, the better the neighborhood the more attention it is given. This is true for street maintenance, police patrols, internet service availability, and even trash collection.

In affluent neighborhoods, once there is a pothole it is quickly fixed. Compare that to poorer areas where you’ll be bopping up and down from one end of the street to the next. In the best areas they pick up the trash right from the front of the building and on time without fail. In good areas you have to take the trash to a corner where a large garbage container is located and dump the trash there. Seldom, they’ll overfill, but they always collect garbage in a scheduled matter. In poor areas like comité del pueblo, last year, garbage just piled up without collection with residents fuming.

To me it makes sense, there are only so many resources and people and businesses that pay more taxes, and contribute more economically should be given priority. It is what it is.