how-to block ads
|
»next review in page
Review by alenonimo 
Posted: 259 days ago
member for 1.4 years, 3 visits, last login: 164 days ago
 Brazil
 $46 per month (18 month contract)
 about 7 days
 "It's pretty decent, for an brazilian ADSL"
 "Brazilian ADSLs are too slow and not that reliable"
 "To live at another country. :("
| Pre Sales information:
Install Co-ordination:
Connection reliability:
Tech Support:
Services:
Value for money:
|
I'm using Telefônica's Speedy service, with advertised downstream of 1 Mbps and upstream of 300 Kbps. It costs, alone, R$ 90,00 and you're obliged to have an provider, which costs another R$ 10,00 or 20,00.
In my tests, the average speed are 756 Kbps for downstream and 242 for upstream. Not bad.
The connection doesn't seems throttled in any way and there's no cap. You can download without any limit, unlike some other brazilians services.
The real problem is the price. R$ 110,00 are equivalent to U$ 46,00, and the minimum wage here is U$ 190,00. It's expensive, and will be for a looooong time. Bad politics and abusive taxes just make everything worse.
Followup comments:  NitroBiz5
join:2007-11-15
Kent, WA
 ·Comcast
| Brazil Funny that I saw your review. I'm planning on moving to Brazil in a few years and I've wondered how my connection would be when I move there. My mother in law has internet service in her apartment and it's intermediate at best. One of my wife's cousin owns a company that provides internet and tv service but it's not available in Sao Paulo where we'll be moving too. | |
| 
furionbr
join:2007-07-16
brazil
 ·GVT
| telefonica if your going to São Paulo, make sure you sign up with Telefónica or NET Virtua, they´re your best chance at broadband. Still, broadband in Sao Paulo is not really a problem, since its the biggest city in Brazil...
and about this review, you should call Telefonica, they have plenty of other plans, I have a friend that is now using the 8 Mbps plan and paying less than you do for 1...
btw, this review is about Telefónica Speedy, so does no belong to Brazil Telecom, as you stated in your review. | |
| | | |
| Forums » comments on review of Brazil Telecom |
 | »next review in page (previous review)
 Review by ayuzor
UPDATED: 1.6 years ago
member for 7.5 years, 55 visits, last login: 1.6 years ago
brazil
$70 per month (12 month contract)
about 3 days
"No download limit but the dl speed too good in most cases anyway..."
"Unstable, heavy traffic shapping specially on internacional links"
"If you have another option dont use this service unless you only access sites on Brazil and don't play games online"
| Pre Sales information:
Install Co-ordination:
Connection reliability:
Tech Support:
Services:
Value for money:
|
This connection has an extremely high latency to servers outside Brazil so its not recomended if you want to play games like World of Warcraft or use VOIP software like Skype
Followup comments: | Forums » comments on review of Brazil Telecom |
| »next review in page (previous review)
Review by acb1
Posted: 1.9 years ago
member for 6.7 years, 70 visits, last login: 1.5 years ago
80730350
$50 per month (12 month contract)
about 20 days
"No good points as I can see"
"Slow, expensive very poor technical support"
"Don't sign with them. If you do it, be prepared to many problems in the near future"
| Pre Sales information:
Install Co-ordination:
Connection reliability:
Tech Support:
Services:
Value for money:
|
They real delivered speed (you can test it using DSLREPORTS.COM) was as much as 1/10 of the advertised speed.
Other and install looks like to be handled by different companies and they don't talk to each other.
The only good experience I had with it was the relief when I finally manage to cancel the contract.
You can have a much better deal (higher speed and less expensive) with gvt.net.br or Virtua
Followup comments: | Forums » comments on review of Brazil Telecom |
| »next review in page (previous review)
Review by gustavouk
Posted: 2.6 years ago
member for 7.9 years, 252 visits, last login: 23 days ago
Brazil
$39 per month
about 7 days
"it's available in most cities"
"narrow band plans with kind of heavy prices"
"if it's the only one available at your place, go for it! otherwise get net virtua!"
| Pre Sales information:
Install Co-ordination:
Connection reliability:
Tech Support:
Services:
Value for money:
|
Basic Information
-Plans: dynamic ip pppoa adsl connection
256kbps/64kbps
256kbps/128kbps
300kbps/150kbps
-Price: around $40
-Equipment: 3Com Home Connect Dual Link
I signed up for a dsl line from Brasil Telecom in 2001, when they first made it available in my city. The plan had 256kbps download and a sluggish 64kbps upload. They sold me an old model 3com bridge modem soon to be discontinued for a really high price (around $200 at the time). It took like one week after I ordered it until they came and installed it. For years it worked really fine, and was the most bang for the buck you could get. Some time later, they must have realized how ridiculous that upload speed was and "upgraded" it to 128kbps. Later on all 256kbps connections were "upgraded" to 300kbps download and 150kbps upload. They "forgot" to include me in the last speed changes, that saw the 300kbps plan upgraded to 400 kbps download and 200kbps upload, and my speed was kept at 300kbps, even though the price I was paying was the same of the 400kbps plan...
Then, the connection started to drop from time to time, and one time they even disabled my line for no apparent reason! When I called tech support telling I didn't have internet connection, they checked and told me it must have been disconnected "by mistake".
I can't say it was a bad experience during all the time I had them as my isp (for some time they even "upgraded" my speed to 800kbps - by mistake too, I guess...), but latelly it sure was. The service got outdated by other isps offering much higher speeds at similar prices and the connection quality wasn't the same as on the old times.
Followup comments: | Forums » comments on review of Brazil Telecom |
|
|
