# What US-timezone countries currently have the best internet connectivity to the US for remote work? (other than Canada) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 21, 2021, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-us-timezone-countries-currently-have-the-best-internet-connectivity-to-the-us-for-remote-work-other-than-canada/956432 "2021-12-21T19:38:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gozu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gozu/32/6615_2.png) [@Gozu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2021, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-us-timezone-countries-currently-have-the-best-internet-connectivity-to-the-us-for-remote-work-other-than-canada/956432/1 "2021-12-21T19:38:37Z")
Some limited research turned up Jamaica but it’s really hard to have comprehensive data on this. I know this is a long shot but maybe some doper has this arcane knowledge at their fingertips. By connectivity, I mean packet loss, bandwidth and latency. In that order. Packet loss affects videoconferencing, bandwidth is not a huge deal, 50Mbps or so should do it, and latency is the least important for work, though it will suck for some online games 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-us-timezone-countries-currently-have-the-best-internet-connectivity-to-the-us-for-remote-work-other-than-canada/956432/2 "2021-12-21T19:53:09Z")
If you mean “US timezone” precisely, then there aren’t very many options: You’ve got Central America, the Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru (plus a small, low-population-density, part of Brazil). Most of South America and over half of the Caribbean are further east than the GMT-5 Zone (what the US calls “Eastern”). ---
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2021, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-us-timezone-countries-currently-have-the-best-internet-connectivity-to-the-us-for-remote-work-other-than-canada/956432/3 "2021-12-21T21:39:34Z")
[This](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Internet_connection_speeds) Wiki ranking of countries by fixed broadband internet speeds has Panama (which is on the same time as EST) as the highest-ranked of the countries in question. I understand that speed alone is not the only metric the OP is interested in, but I suppose other relevant metrics correlate with it. ---
**Author:** ![md-2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@md-2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md-2000)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2021, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-us-timezone-countries-currently-have-the-best-internet-connectivity-to-the-us-for-remote-work-other-than-canada/956432/4 "2021-12-22T19:30:07Z")
Interesting additional data: > **[Submarine Cable Map](https://www.submarinecablemap.com/)** > > TeleGeography's comprehensive and regularly updated interactive map of the world's major submarine cable systems and landing stations. Chile looks promising. ---
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-us-timezone-countries-currently-have-the-best-internet-connectivity-to-the-us-for-remote-work-other-than-canada/956432/5 "2021-12-23T10:30:24Z")
Chile is on EST plus two hours. At least now, during Southern summer, with Chile on DST; during the Northern summer it should be on the same time as EST because EST moves forward one hour and Chilean time back one hour. So it meets the OP’s specifications during half of the year. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gozu/32/6615_2.png) [@Gozu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-us-timezone-countries-currently-have-the-best-internet-connectivity-to-the-us-for-remote-work-other-than-canada/956432/6 "2021-12-23T15:16:24Z")
GMT-4 is close enough to GMT-5 to be ok so I would include those countries (and PR) too. Chile is fine too @Schnitte. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gozu/32/6615_2.png) [@Gozu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-us-timezone-countries-currently-have-the-best-internet-connectivity-to-the-us-for-remote-work-other-than-canada/956432/7 "2021-12-23T15:25:24Z")
@md-2000 cool map! Other interesting places are Cancun, Mexico and Panama. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-us-timezone-countries-currently-have-the-best-internet-connectivity-to-the-us-for-remote-work-other-than-canada/956432/8 "2021-12-23T15:39:44Z")
Isn’t that list mobile only? ---
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-us-timezone-countries-currently-have-the-best-internet-connectivity-to-the-us-for-remote-work-other-than-canada/956432/9 "2021-12-23T16:04:24Z")
It has several lists. If you scroll down you will see the one for fixed broadband. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-us-timezone-countries-currently-have-the-best-internet-connectivity-to-the-us-for-remote-work-other-than-canada/956432/10 "2021-12-23T16:05:21Z")
Sorry-Thank you.