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salmat

7/2/2015 09:22 EST

My husband leaves for Trinidad in 2 weeks to negotiate terms for employment. He will be transferring with his current company. Our daughter will attend ISPS and we will be allowed a large shipping container of household items.
I have read the forum and what to bring and schools. I am very concerned with having high speed internet so I can continue my consulting work while living in Trinidad. Can someone please share about connectivity, availability of reliable Wi-fi and phone/cell service. I will have an international plan for my iPhone, but would like to use VOIP for calling internationally. Does anyone work from home with colleagues in the US and how do you handle it? My in-laws live overseas and have constant disruption of power, lack wi-fi and must rely solely on cell service to connect to internet. I am hoping that is not the case in Trinidad.
Also, should we bring a reverse osmosis water filtration system to have safe drinking water. I would prefer not to buy bottled water for drinking and the high end reverse osmosis systems are quite good at removing even small particles. I read that up to 20% of the water has bacteria after heavy rainfall.
Thank you in advance for your help.

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Msturge

7/2/2015 10:45 EST

We don't have wifi disruption so much but late afternoon it slows down, and we use VOIP with no problems. We have a water dispenser for water and Blue Waters will deliver the big bottles, or you can get a water purifying system put in by these guys who our friends used: http://www.culligantrinidad.com

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paladino

7/11/2015 17:59 EST

If I might clarify. WIFI is a simply a router that forwards the internet traffice in a small area wirelessly, WIFI is not internet service. To be able to have WIFI you must have an ISP, Internet Service Provider, like FLOW. With an internet connection you can then install a WIFI router if one is not furnished by your provider. Lastly, IF you have decent internet service you can subscribe a secondary VOIP provider from a variety of countries and markets for instance allowing you to have a telephone number is a country thousands of miles away as part of that service.

Not try to be wise_ss, I just wanted you to understand your options are open as long as you have an ISP and decent speed service.

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salmat

7/21/2015 15:17 EST

Thank you, I was in a hurry, I run several web sites and am very familiar with how internet works and own 3 wireless routers and signal repeaters. My question was about the reliability of the local internet. Even living in the states, I often experience slow speeds, after paying for Turbo. My in-laws in India have ridiculously slow internet speeds...2 Mbps. To clarify, is it easy to obtain reliable internet service in Trinidad with consistent speeds above 12 Mbps?

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