by Gary | Aug 11, 2020 | Mexico, Technology
Ever since the COVID-19 quarantine has started, our home internet with Izzi has had reliability problems. Izzi woes The speed with Izzi was good, when it was there. But we would get frequent, short drops throughout the day. 10 seconds here, 20 seconds there, a minute...
by Gary | Apr 20, 2020 | Technology
I’m a big fan of Traveling Mailbox. it makes dealing with mail soooo much easier. See our full review at Dealing with Snail Mail while living in Mexico. I also like using a VPN service – especially when I want to work around accessing geo-restricted...
by Gary | Mar 26, 2020 | Financial, Mexico, Technology
One of our more popular posts is regarding our trials and tribulations of paying our CFE (Electric) bill online in Mexico. In that post, I provided some ways to pay a Mexico electric bill (CFE) online. There are definitely some challenges paying Mexico utility bills...
by Gary | Mar 23, 2020 | Financial, Mexico, Technology
Over the past year, the conversion rate from US dollars (USD) to Mexican pesos (MXN) has been about 19 to 1. This means that 1 US dollar is worth about 19 pesos. This rate changes constantly, based on a variety of factors. Over the past year it’s...
by Gary | Nov 26, 2018 | Puerto Morelos, Technology
We recently sent around a survey to Puerto Morelos residents, asking them some questions about their internet experience. Survey Questions Who is your internet provider? What part of town do you live in? What are your internet download and upload speeds? How reliable...
by Gary | Oct 22, 2018 | Financial, Mexico, Technology
One of our most popular posts is about the difficulties in paying our CFE (electric) bill online, especially using a US-based credit card. Well – good news – CFE has just made it a bit easier – you can now pay online at the CFE website using an AMEX...
