For a remote engineer working from Mexico, mobile data is not a vacation convenience. It is your first real backup internet plan.

Hotel Wi-Fi can be fine. Rental Wi-Fi can be fine. Coworking Wi-Fi can be fine. The problem is that "fine" stops being a plan the moment you have …

Working remotely from Mexico is usually not a heroic technical achievement. For many U.S.-based software engineers, the time zones are manageable, flights are reasonable, and the basic travel path is familiar.

That is exactly why it is easy to under-prepare.

The failure mode is not usually "I cannot …

Internet in Cabo can be good enough for serious remote work, but "has Wi-Fi" is not a plan. It is a checkbox. A remote engineer needs a better question before booking a hotel, resort, or short-term rental:

Will this specific workspace support the work I actually need to do?

That …

Working from Cabo sounds easy in the way all beach-adjacent remote work sounds easy before you start thinking like an engineer.

Laptop? Check.

Sunshine? Check.

Internet? Probably.

Quiet place for calls? We'll see.

That "we'll see" is where the real remote-work planning lives. Cabo San Lucas and the broader Los …