Traveling developer in South/Central America

3/3/2013 7:28:50 PM

I don’t know the current situation about Wifi in those countries but I am a developer and I’ve travelled in all of them. I did not have a laptop nor did I do any work but once in a while I did some coding just to keep my brain in shape and learn new things.

I general expect the Wifi to be better in Chile and Costa Rica than in the other countries and again its better in urban areas than out in the country.

I agree, the Wifi in hostels can be sketchy or non-existent. There are two things you can try:

  1. Set up your complete development environment locally on the laptop, possibly in VMs and try to work offline. Maybe mock some services you can not have locally. Use local (distributed) source control and then sync with the office once in the evening or every other day.
    Working offline you realise how dependent you are on online resources and Stack Overflow. Bring local help files or e-books. So even if you can’t work offline all the time, there may be parts of your work that can be done offline and you can work where-ever you want.

  2. Use internet cafes, they are all over the place and even though they may not have Wifi you could just pay for a computer and then use the LAN cable with your laptop.
    Many of these place are pretty shitty, so look around a bit and you’ll find decent ones with good connections. I usually just paid for the whole day to reserve my spot over lunch or other breaks. In countries like Bolivia this cost me as little as 1 Euro per day. But the costs shouldn’t be a big concern when you are actually making money.

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