As a software dev in LATAM, you could get compensation anchored to "LATAM standards" for a multinational or nearshore company but you can even get over $80K+ USD compensation. Anecdotally the highest I have seen been willing to paid has been like 160K USD. Going over that has been difficult, what I have seen is that over that range is expected you work on higher roles, let's say CTO and there might be some condition that you move to the US at some point in the future.
You do need to sell yourself well, great technical and communication skills but possible.
Additionally, there's an additional consideration: Will they hire you as a contractor or employee? Contractor would open these rates. Employee hires is easier to get you caged to LATAM rates, why? Because they would hire you with a LATAM subsidiary and they incur additional costs that may be transparent for you (but still there might be benefits for you even with the rate cut). Not all companies have the expertise and appetite to have a LATAM subsidiary or a third party doing this for them. The same with contracting, some companies will have the appetite of doing certain type of arrangements.
It would be really rare they hire you as an "employee" for US based company as you would need US work authorization plus you would be "simulating" that you live in the US.
There are downsides and upsides in contracting vs being an employee, local laws requirements, obligations, rights so you would need to do this research.
There may be even immigration considerations to consider in both scenarios.
By the way, central america is too general to make specific recommendations.
Windows Phone penetration on Mexico is quite low, but maybe it is popular on another latin american countries.
Honestly I can tell you that for technology comparing different latin american countries is quite apples and oranges. The countries might seen similar but they are really not.
I am based on Mexico and never heard of your site before this. If they are real visits, one possible explanation that comes to mind is that it's holidays (Semana santa) here which also applies to other latin american countries so maybe just people just want to play.
As an extra thought, maybe it became viral by sharing over Whatsapp, so I am pretty sure seeing referrals if you didn't make a campaign it will be pretty hard to pinpoint.
Yes it does. For example here for the speedtest it started a connection to: ipv4_1-lagg0-c002.1.hmo001.telmex.isp.nflxvideo.net (which is my ISP Telmex in Hermosillo) and ipv4_1-cxl0-c041.1.dfw003.ix.nflxvideo.net which is in Dallas.
The Wi-fi Alliance has created an standard called Hotspot 2.0, which aims to fix "Wifi UX" in these scenarios. From Wikipedia: "The idea is for mobile devices to automatically join a Wi-Fi subscriber service whenever the user enters a Hotspot 2.0 area, in order to provide better bandwidth and services-on-demand to end-users, while also alleviating mobile carrier infrastructure of traffic overheads."
05 September 2023: Hacker News Front Page
I doubt there's been a webpage that was slashdotted in 1999 and then became front page news of other website more than 20 years later.