Is there a reliable internet service in DR???

I moving to DR today, my daughter just told me that aol charges long distance to my account. Does anyone know about an internet service that I may be able to connect to???

Dear Betty, I use Codetel when I am down there, but my experience has not been good.Perhaps someone else can help both of us! Canadian Bob

Tricom is supposed to have internet service, but they're not in all parts of the DR yet. I too tolerate Codetel.

I have been told by those who should know that Tricom is better than Codetel, if you live in one of the major cities. I would suggest that you set up you mail account with one of the free internet places like Yahoo or hotmail. I know from experience that codetel's mail service is not very good.

Both Codetel and TriCom are providers. Experiences will vary depending on the quality of your telephone connection and the local access node that you dial. Note that communications quality in the Dominican Republic varies greatly, even during different times of the day from the same source. Poor connections is more than likely not the fault of the provider, but the connection to the provider (your local phone service).

Poor response time could be a bad phone line, a bad connection to your provider, your provider itself, and then any route along the path to your destination address. Once cannot automatically blame the provider for poor response times or connection speeds.

There are a variety of web pages available that will test your line quality on-line. See http://www.zdnet.com/zdhelp/tip_help/stump062498.html, for example.

Testing the Route:

From a DOS prompt, type "TRACERT " to see if your provider, or any of the routers along the way to the destination address are the problem. You'll see the time required along each leg of the path from you to the destination address.

You may want to look at using an accellerator if you are usually browsing links from a single page http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,2130081,00.html.

Jim Hinsch JimHinsch@CSI.COM

Dear Jim Hinsch, Thanks for your detailed help! Canadian Bob.

To All:

Last night between 8:45 and 9:30 I was knocked off Codetel and their Internet connect at least 20 times. It's almost become impossible to use ICQ Chat anymore. And, in fact I tried to get a line to make this very reply and all I kept getting was knocked off, or Codetel couldn't connect to the net. Codetel has sold more service than they can provide, and even in yesterday's Listin Diario was another big add for Codetel's WONDERFUL Internet Service and a special rate to connect. Codetel,...CODEHELL!