Does anyone know of an internet provider where I can get unlimited wireless service on a month to month basis? I require it for only four months of the year. Previously I was with Worldcom (Euro 30 per month) but they are no longer in business, and I cannot find another company providing a similar service - however my Portuguese is very limited! Any help will be much appreciated.

If it's any help we got a payg meo sim and used it with a E5330 dongle, it cost us 10 euros for the sim, and then 15 euros for
a addon that gave us 100hrs of internet use, obviously once you used that allowance up it was another 15 euros for 100hrs.
I know you were looking for unlimited use but this done us and we could not fault the speed's we were getting.

I thought you could hook into the Monte Dourado system?

Thanks for the info Hale much appreciated, will look into that. Bruce yes, we have wifi at MD which is great for checking and sending emails, but not for streaming purposes using Chromecast.

I have been using a Vodafone Mifi unit - should give 25 mps but actual is 8-11. Cost is 25.99/mth with unlimited data - you can use it or stop for whenever you are here. I use it in conjunction with either tvpc (FREE) which gives BBC and ITV ok, or TELLYPASS (US5.99/mth) which gives me access to all catch up tv and access to Sky (inc Sky sports) if you have a sky subscription + username + password. Last week we watched the grand prix live on both systems to compare - tvpc kept stalling every 10 mins, but Tellypass (on Skygo) was fine

how does tellypass work on an iPad, is it easy?
it mentions vpn - sorry IT is a mystery!

There is now a company in Portugal that rents Wifi hotspots, and sells prepaid data SIM cards, specifically to tourists and non-Portuguese residents, that don't require any contract.

Traffic options goes from 1GB to unlimited.
They are called Portugal Internet, and you can find them at http://www.portugalinternet.com

Aldo wrote:how does tellypass work on an iPad, is it easy?
it mentions vpn - sorry IT is a mystery!

Our daughter has 3 children and each have an ipad - that's where we were told about it when we saw them using it at our villa in conjunction with the Vodafone mifi. Works very well especially with Skygo if you have a sky subscription - you can use up to 5 additional units, so they had their 3 ipads and we used it on a laptop which we plugged into the any of the TV's.