Comments on: The frustration of finding a wireless connection in Italy

By: Haaglander

Haaglander — Sat, 26 May 2007 08:34:11 +0000

Ed, did you try an English-spoken conversation with those Italians?

Greetz from Holland, Haaglander

By: Enrico

Enrico — Wed, 23 May 2007 20:42:44 +0000

Ed, overall internet access in Italy is a joke, like many other things over here in Italy… the best way to get a wireless connection is walk around the town and find some clueless user that has a wifi spot and doesn’t know how to protect it

By: Bryan Price

Bryan Price — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:28:25 +0000

And here I am, I just spent 19CHF (about $16) for 4 hours of internet connectivity. And I’ve already been kicked off for whatever. Can’t wait to get home to my cable connection!

By: Marie Carnes

Marie Carnes — Tue, 22 May 2007 14:25:07 +0000

The outside photo of the hotel looks like the hotel from the movie “Only You,” which appears to have been filmed all over Italy, but not Lucca.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 22 May 2007 11:23:03 +0000

usually the lobby of the starhotel italian chain of hotels have free wireless:) sometimes a bar and espresso place too. hmmm, but i dunno about bologna. actually i just googled hotspot bologna and it turned up many likely candidates.

By: Ed Bott

Ed Bott — Tue, 22 May 2007 05:41:00 +0000

The secrets are:

“advertised that it offers free high-speed internet access”

and

“the new system that was just installed…”

So, I could spend hours tracking down the management and get them to honor their advertisement or just pay 1 euro per hour and not interrupt my vacation. The hotel is clean and comfortable and the rate is reasonable, so I chose the latter.

By: Griffon

Griffon — Tue, 22 May 2007 03:07:02 +0000

“offers free high-speed Internet access.”
“’s a pay-as-you-go system, at a fairly reasonable 1-euro-per-hour rate”
“buy a prepaid Internet access card”

I can’t put my finger on it but I swear one of these things contradicts the other two…