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Old Jun 11th 2015, 3:38 pm
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I am thinking of moving to one of the coastal towns - Benalmadena, Torre del Mar or Nerja and am trying to get an idea of maximum bandwidth available in those areas. I looked through previous threads but the relevant ones were a couple of years old and I'm probably making the incorrect assumption that things have changed.

I noted that Movistar has a 300Mb package, is that available in the area or would that only be available in the larger cities? Am I looking at 30Mb d/l or is it less?

Thanks for any help you can give.
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Old Jun 11th 2015, 3:48 pm
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Old Jun 15th 2015, 6:50 pm
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Probably not of interest to you, but where I am at they have Iberbanda, a rural internet provider. Very low speeds.



But if you don't have a land line and are not ready to go with sat internet, this might be an option.
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You should be getting better speeds than that especially as your upload speed is more than your download speed.

A download speed of 0.49 is ridiculously low for Iberbanda and virtually useless - absolutely no possibility of Internet TV even. I would complain rapidly.

Most WiFi systems should give at least 3mb as a minimum, up to 1:0mb at a higher price.

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Old Jun 19th 2015, 2:41 pm
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Horrible speeds indeed. Iberbanda only guarantees 10% of the advertised bandwidth and without knowing on what subscription I am (we are house sitting on this address) I have not much to go on.
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Old Jun 20th 2015, 7:22 am
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We live in Caleta de Velez, just outside Torre del Mar. Internet provider is Movistar. Maximum speed is 2.4Mb just under €50 a month. Expensive and not fast.
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