My new ISP – Flow Jamaica

I didn’t say much about it, but for the past 10 weeks I have had a new ISP at home, a newish telecommunications company in Jamaica name Flow Jamaica. I wanted to have some time to test out and evaluate their service before I posted about it as I didn’t want to be influenced by my excitement of having a super fast internet connection. Well I have a special bundle of telephone, digital cable and internet. I get 300 free minutes per month to call anywhere in the North America and the UK and that has come in handy for calling my older brother and sister (by my father side) and the hordes of friends I grew up with that are going to school abroad or migrated. I am very satisfied with the phone service, it is crisp and clear and have had no problems with drop calls and such and I can all any other phone network available in Jamaica at reasonable rates. I have 175 digital cable channels with all my favourites such as speed, history, discovery, Starz etc included but I must admit that I am a little short on movie channels but they can be added along with high Def channles and more at a cost.

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Well not surprising the service which I was mainly interested in getting is the one I am most satisfied with. stepping up from a 64kbps connection with Gotel and a networked 1.5mbps at work between about 50 computers to a whopping 4 meg residential connection all for me alone took a whole lot of getting used to. I had already broken into a browsing habit of doing all manner of stuff while using the computer, I would be cleaning, ironing, studying, play video games etc between each page load or download and that was just the norm but now I have to be changing my entire browsing habits it’s almost nostalgic. I find myself getting through everything I plan to do at the computer in 20 minutes, usually all that would have taken me 2-3 hours. Downloading is where having such a fast connection really shines. I have literally chewed through my own hard drive (and a friend of mine hard drive too for that matter) in less that two weeks, i have downloaded everything i could possible wanted to download and now I have about 400mb of free space battling with. Downloading 1 gig files in less than an hour never gets boring and I find myself having a huge cue of “stuff” to sort through which have been downloaded. Online games, videos and other media is a breeze no stuttering slow loading whatsoever, I do everything online at the fastest speed possible.

So far I have had only a few problems service-wise with FLOW and all of them have been sorted out with no problems, so what can I say but I am happy and relieved finally some of the so called “progress” in this country is affecting me….beware though FLOW I am watching you.

11 thoughts on “My new ISP – Flow Jamaica

  1. FLOW is a nice company… things can only get better. U must be living large though a jump for 96k to 4mb!!!!! How do u sleep @ night?!?! hehehehe
    If u never had a DVD burner before I bet you have started to look into one now 😀

  2. I recently got flow too.
    As it regards space management, I too have had to make some adjustments.
    Now instead of working on my collection of music for songs/albums that aren’t keepers, I’ve taken to dling them then deleting them when I’m finished listening to them a few days later. The same goes for movies too. Infact, now I watch those online.. without a hitch thanks to sites like ssupload and apps like Joost.
    I’ve also moved a lot of my old desktop functions completely online too. Things like email, wordprocessing and even project management are all done with online applications now so less desktop requirements.

  3. I have put my name on the waiting list and all now I’m still waiting on them to contact me. I only want their broadband service and from what I hear it seems sweet.

  4. I cant wait until flow gets to my area.Cable and Wireless sucks.The only time i got my full download speed was the first week i got the service.Im on a one megabit per second connection.My average download speed is 30-40kb per second.Im sure its not my computers fault-it has pretty good specs.

  5. Oops forgot to mention-the download for 1mbs should be 125kbps(but no service provider gives the max speed,always behind by like 5 or so kilobytes).

  6. nice thanks for the heads up on this company, trying to sort out my grandma some internet. any info on the prices. actually shocked tho at the ultra slow connection speed your chuffed with. 20meg is a standard for me. [smile]

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