Internet in Brazil is like an annoying neighbour: if you don´t need it, it´s always available and stopping you from doing your work but as soon as you urgently need its help it´s either busy due to a lot of people using it or not available.
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We like to think of Brazil as one of the leading nations. Economy, wealth, development.
Unfortunately
I am forced to say that Luanda (capital of Angola) has more reliable internet
providers. During my time there, the internet in two private apartments as well
as the internet cafe never failed (only when we had some of the occasional
electricity failures but then again, it wasn´t the internet providers fault…)...
Working
mainly through the internet and online masterboards, my husband and I have been
fighting our way through at least 4 different internet providers. Two mobile
stick internet options (claro and vivo, incredibly expensive and incredibly
slow), radio and cable internets
(affordable, but totally unreliable). We will hopefully soon be able to try out
the last remaining, expensive option called Velox (unfortunately we do know
from relatives using it here in Porto Seguro (region Bahia) that even this
option has similar failures although it seems to be the fastest and reliable of
all). So what do they all have in common?
