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I’m going to send this to my brother, he has been thinking of doing telemedicine and touring the US in an RV, maybe this is even better. Is the internet in Costa Rica as good as the article says?

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Make sure that he can do said telemedicine from outside of the country (per his contract or law). I know more than a few doctors that have tried to do it just to discover that for some reason it wouldn't work for them. For instance, they could read an x-ray and comment on it but per some rule it wasn't actually allowed to count as "official" and still had to be checked by a second radiologist. I can't recall what the blocking factor was, I just know it's kept him from buying a sailboat and taking off or buying a large house in Thailand.

Hello -- Been in and out of this country as well as other regional countries a lot in the past decade and I can attest it's probably some of the best in the whole latin american/caribbean zone. Fibre to the home rollout across the country in places where you wouldn't expect it like the beach and the jungle. What's spotty isn't as much actually the internet access, but the electricity. I usually make sure I'm in range of 4g and keep good batteries for the two hours or so that the 4g towers have batteries. After that it's time to go eat a mango in a hammock or something until it comes back on. Being in central time zone also helps for doing stuff like calls when you're dealing with people on both east and west coast and in between like your brother may be considering.

Didn’t read the article, so if they are claiming 1Gbps or something like that then no.

But as an engineering manager who travels to Costa Rica often to work for weeks from there (from all over the country) I can tell you that I rarely have connectivity issues.

Touring the US in an RV while working is a pretty decent fallback plan. Don't discourage him either way!

Yes is very good, capital and some beaches has very stable connections.

It's very spotty

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