I looked into moving to Argentina recently but found some complaints on forums about the speed and reliability of the Internet. What are your experiences with the Internet in Argentina?
Well. Sadly I don't have any benchmark (or some serious analysis) to share with you but I can tell you this:
- I pay about 40usd for a non symmetric 12Mbps connection. It works ok - at least for me - I can stream music or watch something on Netflix without any problems.
- My ISP has a max of 50Mbps (non symmetric)
- You can find some corporate symmetric connections (I'm not aware if you can have those at home) but I suspect they are like a regular connection in some other more advanced countries
iPlan perhaps doesn't even use it's own fiber, apparently there are more companies offering it. But it's legal to call your company FiberTel in Argentina and then sell cable not fiber, so the situation is pretty opaque to me.
The full price is 1200 pesos, around 75 bucks. So not cheap. But to have something that works reliably up and down it's peanuts, the cheaper options are not as reliable and have asymmetric speeds. Stable videoconferencing is a must.
I have an iPlan fiberoptic line 10/10 and it's a really stable 10/10. I don't need big downloads all of the time just a reliable connection for (video)conference. Other parts have 100/100 or 50/50.
One (perhaps non-representative) data point: I have teammates who live in Villa La Angostura and Cordoba and I chat with them using Google hangouts every day. Their bandwidth has never been an issue for video chat.
- I pay about 40usd for a non symmetric 12Mbps connection. It works ok - at least for me - I can stream music or watch something on Netflix without any problems.
- My ISP has a max of 50Mbps (non symmetric)
- You can find some corporate symmetric connections (I'm not aware if you can have those at home) but I suspect they are like a regular connection in some other more advanced countries