Shoutout to the WiFi speed test in Medellin that blew my mind

I was at a coworking space in El Poblado last week and decided to finally run a speed test on their free WiFi. It hit 200 Mbps down which is honestly faster than my apartment back in Seattle. I found out from the guy at the front desk that they bought a dedicated fiber line just for the building. He said it costs about $150 a month split between 30 desks. Made me realize how much I overpay for crappy coffee shop connections that can barely handle a Zoom call. Has anyone else found surprisingly fast internet in random spots abroad?

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clark.iris29d ago

@alices16 you are so right about the infrastructure thing. It reminds me of this time I was in a tiny town in Portugal and the Airbnb had fiber optic that was faster than anything Ive ever seen in a hotel in New York. The old lady running the place was like "oh yeah, the whole street got it last year." Meanwhile my friend in Brooklyn pays $80 a month for DSL that drops during thunderstorms. Internet is so weird like that.

alices1629d ago

Whoa that is Actually insane. 200 Mbps in a coworking space in Colombia for that cheap makes me wonder why we put up with those overpriced coffee shop hotspots in the US that claim "fast WiFi" but can't even load a single Google Doc. I stayed in a tiny hostel in Buenos Aires last year and their shared connection somehow ran 150 Mbps, which is better than what I had in my whole apartment building back in Chicago. Makes you realize how much the infrastructure abroad can sometimes just blow ours out of the water for a fraction of the cost.