Hello everyone, I'm hoping to re-establish a phone line to my holiday home in Italy to get a broadband connection. I've been told though by Telecom Italia that I need to be Italian with Italian ID to do this.
I'm looking for a gardener/woodsperson to try to keep the wood behind/around my house under control - chainsaw work, hedge cutting, general maintenance.
Er that's it really - we're over for a month quite soon - wondering how the makeover looks?It's one of my favourite outdoor pool complexes in the region but it had been getting a bit giu in carrozzeria...(All seems very different in here these day
Anyway, the upshot of it all is that I've gone for a contract with Fastweb for 25 euro a month unlimited ADSL.My kind Italian accountant allowed me to use his bank account for the direct debits.Two weeks on though and I''m still waiting for the promised call from a Fastweb technician to arrange a visit.Facciamo le corna!
Sardinia does look lovely, we've never been. But we do know the Amalfi coast (Ravello, Positano, Amalfi itself etc) and it is wonderful. Depends what you're after. With the Amalfi option you can also explore Pompeii, Paestum etc and take a boat to Capri (check out the Cesare Augustus hotel http://www.caesar-augustus.com/). Generally the heel of Italy is much less explored - we loved the baroque over-the-topness of Lecce and the trulli of Alberobello. Might still be quite hot in September of course as you head down below Salerno. I asked about beaches because in this area bear in mind they are often made up of black volcanic sand or stones. Positano and Maiori have wide beaches. Couldn't quite see what the beaches are like around Arbatax.
WADSL looks great but the coverage across Italy is patchy. We're near Lucca and checking on wadsl.it, there's nothing there.In fact... nothing near Pisa, or Florence, or Milan. Or Rome!I wonder on what basis they choose where to put their antennae?
I've used a mifi hotspot for quite a few years now. The data allowances are just too puny for us - we are a five person (three teenage child) family and if someone forgets to turn off their auto app updates, which kick in as soon as the phone sees it's in a wifi zone, then - boom - your one, two or three gig allowance is gone in a trice. I just got fed up continually topping it up, plus I can only top it up with that Carta Postepay thing, which meant trolling down to the post office to recharge... etc etc etc.We've looked into satellite internet too. Has someone out to the house. But it seems way too expensive for what you get (again, rationed data). Plus our house is quite nice to look at, and wouldn't really benefit from a satellite dish either on the roof or in the garden!
Does anyone know if there is any such thing as a free basic bank account in Italy? One you can put money into from abroad?I know it's asking a lot but... you never know.
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Anyway, the upshot of it all is that I've gone for a contract with Fastweb for 25 euro a month unlimited ADSL.My kind Italian accountant allowed me to use his bank account for the direct debits.Two weeks on though and I''m still waiting for the promised call from a Fastweb technician to arrange a visit.Facciamo le corna!
The good certainly does outweigh the bad Lisa. It's just the revelling-in-bureaucracy thing that's so frustrating.
6 euro a month sounds good value for Italy. Did you open the account in Italy?
Sardinia does look lovely, we've never been. But we do know the Amalfi coast (Ravello, Positano, Amalfi itself etc) and it is wonderful. Depends what you're after. With the Amalfi option you can also explore Pompeii, Paestum etc and take a boat to Capri (check out the Cesare Augustus hotel http://www.caesar-augustus.com/). Generally the heel of Italy is much less explored - we loved the baroque over-the-topness of Lecce and the trulli of Alberobello. Might still be quite hot in September of course as you head down below Salerno. I asked about beaches because in this area bear in mind they are often made up of black volcanic sand or stones. Positano and Maiori have wide beaches. Couldn't quite see what the beaches are like around Arbatax.
When you say beachside, do you mean sandy?
WADSL looks great but the coverage across Italy is patchy. We're near Lucca and checking on wadsl.it, there's nothing there.In fact... nothing near Pisa, or Florence, or Milan. Or Rome!I wonder on what basis they choose where to put their antennae?
Maybe it's just an online booking issue then. It's SO much harder when you're not actually in the country (:Will have a look at Micso...
*had* someone out to the house...
I've used a mifi hotspot for quite a few years now. The data allowances are just too puny for us - we are a five person (three teenage child) family and if someone forgets to turn off their auto app updates, which kick in as soon as the phone sees it's in a wifi zone, then - boom - your one, two or three gig allowance is gone in a trice. I just got fed up continually topping it up, plus I can only top it up with that Carta Postepay thing, which meant trolling down to the post office to recharge... etc etc etc.We've looked into satellite internet too. Has someone out to the house. But it seems way too expensive for what you get (again, rationed data). Plus our house is quite nice to look at, and wouldn't really benefit from a satellite dish either on the roof or in the garden!
Does anyone know if there is any such thing as a free basic bank account in Italy? One you can put money into from abroad?I know it's asking a lot but... you never know.