Broadband/line rental in spain
Discussion
Can anyone help with this??
My mum is moving to Spain and it looks like her options are limited to 'telefonica' for line rental, they appear to be the old BT with control over everything.
If any PHers live in Spain, could you let me know of a good set-up for:
Line rental (I appreciate this might only be possible through telefonica)
Calls (won't be making a lot of calls, they'll use Skype to call me and my brother from UK and maybe still use it to call UK landlines
Broadband
Theres an alternative solution which basically uses a 3G dongle instead of a physical line, but if the UK's anything to go by, I've said to avoid this.
Thanks
My mum is moving to Spain and it looks like her options are limited to 'telefonica' for line rental, they appear to be the old BT with control over everything.
If any PHers live in Spain, could you let me know of a good set-up for:
Line rental (I appreciate this might only be possible through telefonica)
Calls (won't be making a lot of calls, they'll use Skype to call me and my brother from UK and maybe still use it to call UK landlines
Broadband
Theres an alternative solution which basically uses a 3G dongle instead of a physical line, but if the UK's anything to go by, I've said to avoid this.
Thanks
Basically you've summed it up.
Telefonica was renamed Movistar and as you put it, are the equivalent of BT. Service is actually pretty good, Expensive compared to the UK, but none of the BS download limit (I did 650GB one month). Think we pay circa 65€ a month for line and ADSL.
A 3G dongle is actually a good bet, last year I got a Vodafone one for 40€ a month, again with no limit.
Depending on where she will be moving to there are other options. A friend of mine has a wireless ISP, so assuming you have line of site to one of his repeaters that may be an option. http://www.mercuryinternet.com/
This might be better placed in the Spain forum, Mods??
Telefonica was renamed Movistar and as you put it, are the equivalent of BT. Service is actually pretty good, Expensive compared to the UK, but none of the BS download limit (I did 650GB one month). Think we pay circa 65€ a month for line and ADSL.
A 3G dongle is actually a good bet, last year I got a Vodafone one for 40€ a month, again with no limit.
Depending on where she will be moving to there are other options. A friend of mine has a wireless ISP, so assuming you have line of site to one of his repeaters that may be an option. http://www.mercuryinternet.com/
This might be better placed in the Spain forum, Mods??
It might be worth looking at Iberbanda http://www.iberbandainenglish.com/ which uses WiMAX technology to provide wireless broadband and phone. It's been installed a couple of remote Andalucian holiday cottages where I've stayed, and seems to work fine (maybe a bit slower than wired broadband). It's not (as far as I can tell) anything to do with Telefonica.
Iberbanda is very good for remote rural properties, it is part owned by Telefonica and corte ingles (not that, that is an issue). They are ideal if you can't get a phone line. However they are expensive and priorotise voip traffic over everything else. I've used an iberbanda connection for 3 weeksd while house sitting and found it to be very slow (about 1mb) though general browsing / email it would be fine.
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