Comments on: Italy – Worst. Internet. Ever.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:30:37 +0000

Using an Alice ADSL connection in Puglia,
Alice Tim, “8 Mbit broadband” crawling at 64-256 kbit.
Oh, BTW, crappy support, not speaking anything than italian dialect from their own village.

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:07:12 +0000

I just found out for myself. I’m using an Alice ADSL connection in Sicily now and it’s indeed the worst I’ve ever come across. It’s super slow with frequent disconnections, DNS resolving fails for many sites (forcing me to use opendns.org), SMTP seems to be blocked so I can only send email using webmail. It’s just plain terrible, and that for 20 euro per month from what I heard.

By: Killing Batteries » Dropping off the grid

Killing Batteries » Dropping off the grid — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:04:55 +0000

[...] The ship has a helipad, jet boats, a Zodiac, a spa and three gourmet meals a day, but no internet. Must’ve been built in Italy. [...]

By: The greatest writer’s retreat in the history of the universe

The greatest writer’s retreat in the history of the universe — Mon, 28 May 2007 12:53:12 +0000

[...] Nothing to do. Virtually alone. Mobile internet service signal so weak, I had to often stand in the middle of the street to get a connection, and even then I only managed a data transfer rate of about 3kps. Shopping had to be done at a [...]

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 14 May 2007 06:59:17 +0000

Andrew is right. The company I work for in Oz has a nominal 52k dial up server that runs one day in three at about 10 k if I’m lucky. People that send me 2MB files are stunned when I haven’t downloaded after 2 hours. This is a national company with 2500 employees and in the top 150 companies. IT dept from hell, curiously not run by Italians though.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:20:26 +0000

I’d just like to say that the internet connection in Australia is quite possibly even worse than you describe, i never thought i’d miss my (considered at the time) measly 512k broadband connection quite as much as i do while waiting 15minutes for my internet banking page to load.

Actually, there are are large number of italians living in australia too, could this be a coincidence? i think not.

By: Romeo

Romeo — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 05:24:12 +0000

When will we be treated to Leif Pettersen – the movie?

Tag line: The more lost he gets, the funnier he is.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:41:58 +0000

Poor internet connections might surely be the spur to the creativity that blogging has so haplessly destroyed.

Life without a high bandwidth connecftion might do wonders to promote a more reflective and insightful style of travel writing.

Try it!
Peter

By: Marge

Marge — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:20:29 +0000

Reminds me of the comment Marianne used to make about England’s inability to provide decent plumbing and appliances: “these people ran an empire?”

I’d think you were making all this up had I not used your computer over Xmas. Sadly, it’s all too true.

By: Conor

Conor — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:53:46 +0000

Is 3kps even a speed? It sounds like those old “SPF Zero” sunblocks. You could suck DHL parcels through a straw faster than that.

I too feel that intense frustration, my friend – my “broadband” connection in my apartment is $50 per month and is pulled down every few hours by monkeys, no lie. It took me three days to download a video of a sneezing panda.

Still, on your worst day, you’re still sipping cafe in Sardinia and writing hilarious shit. Not too shabby.

Conor