Spent 4 hours hunting for a coworking space in Medellin with actual good wifi

Turns out the place with the best reviews had a speed cap at 5mbps and I didn't notice until my Zoom client started glitching halfway through a call has anyone else run into fake fast internet listings?

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graym4919d ago

Spent 4 hours hunting" - dude that hurts just reading it. I heard from some digital nomad group that a lot of these "fast wifi" listings in Medellin are actually just the landlord testing their phone hotspot and calling it good. Best trick I picked up is to ask the place to run a speed test on Zoom specifically before you book, not just a general speed test. Also check if they throttle bandwidth after a certain time of day, some places do that without telling anyone. Hope your next spot works out better.

nathan_hill6019d ago

Actually Zoom lets you check network quality before joining a call, so it's not just the speed test that matters lol.

rileyl9819d ago

I had a rental in Barcelona last year that advertised "gigabit fiber" and it turned out to be a shared connection across four apartments. When I ran a speed test at noon it looked fine, but by 8pm it was basically unusable for video calls. The Zoom network check @nathan_hill60 mentioned would've caught that, but only if I had checked it at the right time of day. What I learned is to ask the host directly about their internet setup, not just the speeds. If they can't tell you if it's fiber, cable, or DSL and who the provider is, that's usually a red flag.