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ojosch

Jul 2, 2008, 3:21 PM

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Hi-speed Internet available in Cihuatlan, Jalisco?

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Hello everyone. Let me just introduce myself briefly. My name is Josch and I am 35 yrs old, and this is my first posting here on this forum (an excellent site by the way). I am a bilingual gabacho who is married to a beautiful Jaliscian chica for 9 years now and we currently live in the USA in Utah. The last time I went to Mexico myself was in 1996 for 4 months, and before that 1995 for 3 months, both times to the region of Santiago Ixcuintla, Nayarit. By the way, I had the time of my life, and I loved the people. This was way before I ever met my wife, as I had went down there with co-workers working in the states who were native to Nayarit. So my wife (whom I met and married in the USA) and I are finally going back to Mexico together for the first time this 4th of July to FINALLY visit her mother and grandparents (along with a handful of other relatives). So I have never been to Cihuatlan, Jal. yet. And this time we have a handful of business to perform while we are there. One of my most important tasks is to find a hi-speed broadband connection to install at either the grandparent's place or the mother's place, because I'm bringing a laptop and a webcam so I can connect them to Skype and then we will be able to have video conversations for free instead of using costly calling cards to keep in touch. I currently use Skype now to talk with full video to my wife's sister's family in Michigan State and now we all talk like once a week for free with full video. He has 512 kbps DSL and I have 5 mbps cable and we never have hicupps with video or sound. So it is an important task for me to at least try to get this connected. I also installed logmein.com software on this laptop so I can log into the console and do remote administration and fix things when they have problems, and they can just watch as I fix. This is how I manage the sister's computer in Michigan right now. Now the last time I was in Mexico there was not too much in the way of Internet to the average pueblo. But supposedly things are better wired now that it's 2008. Does anyone know if they use wireless internet, or DSL, or cable? I used to work for a wireless internet company here in Utah for several years, and I was tempted to bring some old equipment with me like a 24dB antenna and an 802.11b radio or something to maybe save on equipment costs, but now the airlines are imposing extra costs for exceeding weight on baggages. Is there anyone else in the Cihuatlan/Manzanillo/Barra De Navidad area who can give me some advice on Internet Service Providers (ISPs)? I will be staying for 3 weeks, and am hoping that I have enough time to find a solution for this.

Josch

N2Futur

Jul 2, 2008, 3:29 PM

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Re: [ojosch] Hi-speed Internet available in Cihuatlan, Jalisco?

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Josch, I live in Melaque, and we do have DSL service here, so I assume it is available in Cihuatlan as well. I went to the Manzanillo TelMex office to request it and had it in 3 days. They have 512/1MB/2MB packages including the phone service. I have the 1MB package which is 599 pesos per month (phone and internet). I think the 2MB package is 999 pesos/mo. You can pay from the US here: www.telmexusa.com. As far as I know, TelMex is the only internet service provider in this area.

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Elke

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ojosch

Jul 3, 2008, 12:10 AM

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Yes, thank you very much. At least that gives me a place to start looking. I do hope that DSL is available at her address. She has phone service there now, since my wife installed her a phone a while back to stay in contact. I'll go find the Telemex place in Manzanillo probably on Monday then after the weekend.

Thanks again

N2Futur

Jul 3, 2008, 7:57 AM

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glad I could be of help. I use Skype too, to talk to my better 1/2, who is still in Colorado Springs. Sometimes it does drop calls and the video will freeze. Yahoo Messenger is another option for video calls, sometimes that works better.

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ojosch

Jul 3, 2008, 9:54 AM

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Do you or anyone else using Telemex DSL happen to know if they will give out public IP addresses (for monthly fee or free or whatever)? My wife and I are most likely going to move to Cihuatlan or Colima in 3-5 years and I always have my web server that I keep all my stuff on so I can get to it anywhere and so my family can view media I post. I suppose I could use a dynamic DNS service if really necessary but I like the idea of just keeping a static public IP and using static DNS so that I don't have to rely on yet another service from somewhere else. Hopefully I'm not getting too technical here. I've just heard that outside of the USA getting public IPs can be more difficult or expensive. Does anyone have any knowledge about this?

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Jul 3, 2008, 12:34 PM

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As I recollect, you can get a static IP #, at least you could with Prodigy DSL. You might take a look at this URL. I bet that somewhere in there, it will have the info you want.

http://www.telmex.com/mx/hogar/index.html

As I recollect the fixed IP# is only offered to business customers, but I could be wrong.

ojosch

Jul 21, 2008, 4:19 PM

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Just an update to my situation. I've been here in Cihuatlan now for a little more than 2 weeks now, and I inquired about the Telemax DSL, and they told me that the system for this area is at full capacity at the moment and could not sign me up until another subscriber cancels first. But the abuela of my wife is confident that we would be wasting our money anyway if we got it because after she saw me use my computer she is sure that she can't learn how to use it. So we bagged on the idea of getting them a permanent connection right now anyway. We will just wait until my wife's little sister gets a couple years older and teach her how to use it.

I DID however, hook up a wireless service here for the 3 weeks while I am here. Intelsys in Cihuatlan has a wireless internet repeater on the mountain and here at the abuelos house I can connect my laptop directly at 3 bars signal as long as I'm in the back yard aiming my laptop a certain way. This is how I am connecting right now. It also works at many areas of town that have some line-of-sight to the repeater and even sometimes w/o line-of-sight if your not too far away from it. But I only use it at the house anyway and it always works here too.

I was even able to connect to Skype and get full video / audio conversations to my wife's sister in Michigan State and the abuelitos were very happy to see their grandkids via internet.

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions