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[scottmx81]

I noticed the speeds advertised on the Telmex website have been updated -- presumably for new contracts only. I'm still stuck at 512kbps, even though new contracts at the same $349+IVA level are being advertised as 1mb now.

It works acceptably well with Vonage, however. The cable company, Telemedia, starting messing with their internet so that only port 80 (http) connections were fast, everything else was painfully slow including Vonage, SSH remote terminals, etc. I was forced to switch to Infinitum after they intentionally started disrupting non-web traffic.

The 1990's speeds aside, I've been very happy with the reliability and consistency of Prodigy Infinitum here in Morelia, relative to the old service with the cable company, anyway.

We have a new service offering here in Morelia fromm the cell phone company Iusacell. They are now offering some sort of wireless broadband internet, perhaps microwave but I'm not sure. Their base plan is combined with a VoIP package, and it looks very interesting.

http://www.blast.net.mx/

For some reason I signed up for this Paquete Telmex 512, which is phone, internet and a long distance plan which includes 2 peso / minute calling to Canada & USA. Sounded good at the time, worth the extra 100 pesos / month, but the Vonage service, which was iffy with the cable company, has worked so well with Infinitum that I've made a total of about 5 long distance calls with the landline since I signed up for Infinitum, a year or so ago.

So while the speeds with Telmex are not great, at least their service works consistently with Vonage and other services requiring low-latency packet delivery. As opposed to the cable company, which supposedly had a higher download speed, but the upload speed was so crippled it made it near impossible for the other party to hear what I was saying, even though they were usually clear to me. And that was before they crippled non-port-80 traffic, which killed Vonage & SSH, etc, altogether.

Bandwidth and latency are not the same thing. Satellite connections are high-bandwidth, but also with a high latency making the use of things like VoIP and SSH impractical. Might work fine for downloading MP3s but not so good for real-time applications. In this respect, Prodigy Infinitum is very good.

[Guy Courchesne]

Slick Slim and Telmex/Prodigy just mailed me a wireless router, free-of-charge. Over the phone, they said they were trying to bring everyone up to speed on the technology. Knowing Telmex, there has to be a catch somewhere...maybe they just want me to stop writing bad things about them.

Has anyone else received this freebie?

[FreddyM]

No freebies here, but my high speed with cablevision (1.3mb) has been really crippled lately when it comes to p2p programs (like the torrent networks and emule). It used to work like a charm, but now my connection is showing all kinds of firewalls I can't get around. I don't know if something is being intentionally blocked or if I have some kind of hardware or software problem. It's an expensive service, and the only reason to pay that much for it is the ability to download entire movies and tv episodes. I've read that some isp's intentionally cripple peer-to-peer programs, and I wonder if that is what is going on here right now. I'm stuck with cablevision for another few months with a contract I signed, and all this supposed bandwidth I have is useless to me if I can't download things to watch on "television".

[Aabra]

I'm with Megacable right now. It's a 1MB connnection although I'm not 100% satisfied with it. They've got me on some kind of strange internal router that I've never seen before. ipconfig shows a completely different ip address than www.ipaddress.com (which shows my *real* ip)

A bunch of programs go all screwy as a result of this. I only have a cell phone and have no real desire for a phone line which kind of rules out any DSL options. (I don't feel like paying for a phone line that I don't need just so I can pay even more money for DSL)

Other than that mildly annoying problem, combined with a 20k/sec upload speed cap - it's not that bad. heh

[cangringo]

Freddy,

We have internet here in Monterry through cable and now we have low id on emule. It's possible it's an internal firewall but I suspect that the cable companies have caught on to the pirate industry and are doing some bandwidth hocus pocus. Have you checked everything to do with your firewalls etc...?? If not, you can pm me and I'll splain how to. I have tried shutting off the firewall and changing ports and neither works so it's probably the isp.

[FreddyM]

[El Gallo]

good article on Slim on CNN.com http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/03/12/mexico.slim.ap/index.html

I have megacable high speed and it works great.

[MELEE]

[Guy Courchesne]

The CNN story was probably slated for an April 1st publish date...

[danielita]

You've got to be kidding me, turning TELMEX into a professional organization??

When I went to get my telephone line, I was told I had to wait a month for it, maybe more. The locals told me to drive around and looking for a TELMEX installation truck, flag them down and bribe them. I ended up giving up and went to the dispatch office, spoke to someone there and ended up with an installation the next day. I wouldn't quite call stalking and bribing to get my telephone line installed professional by any means.