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Message started by sabineopp on Aug 18th, 2006 at 8:14pm

Title: Re: Is WIFI available 5km from L'Ampolla?
Post by ColinB on Apr 4th, 2007 at 9:07pm
YES IT IS.     If you can see Deltebre then go into the computer shop in the same road as Mercadona (further down on the other side) take your bank details, fill in a form.  10-14 days later you'll get a call from a technician ( company = Sotechnic I think) he'll run up onto the roof, screw on an antenna, point it at Deltebre, plug a cable into your compoota, configure it and shoot off.   You should then be on broadband wi-fi.  I applied for 1 megabit/second contract at €75 / month. BUT...... it doesn't.   Using a free speed test from      www.bandwidthplace.com    the fastest I have logged thus far is just 50 megabits/sec - that means it takes 2.8 minutes to download a 1 MB file.   In comparison, my UK supplied 2 way satellite at €140 per month flashes through the ether at 370 mbps (that's 22 seconds to download 1 MB).
So far I am not impressed and have asked the provider for an explanation but if you're not worried about top speeds, a connection is now available and that might be good news for someone.

PS The technician was too fast and left a really scruffy bit of cable hanging down my wall - he'll have to come back and re-do it if we keep the service.   Good luck.  

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