Update: We’ve had the system for a week now, and I can say it operates flawlessly. No outages, no slowdowns.
For those of you who want to contact Fabrizio, who speaks English, you can go to his web site Computertecnica to see what he’s up to, and the contact page to contact him directly through an email form.
We now return you to the original post:
I am pleased to announce that a small, square antenna—the size of one of those plates the pasticceria gives you when you buy a few etti of cookies—is clamped to our front window grate, pointing to a distant repeater on top of a mountain and bringing high speed internet into our house in Piano di Collecchia.
After many years without DSL here in rural Italy, we’re in business. In fact, business is so good that we had trouble linking up with the signal from the router on the ThinkPad we use for travel—our neighbor’s signal on a close channel was interfering with ours! Our installer Fabrizio had the problem solved in a few minutes, and we were in business with two computers.
Fabrizio speaks English and knows all the English-speaking expats in the area because they’ve been lusting for a solution to the expensive “free” dial-up that comes with a big phone bill from telecom.
The solution uses hiperlan. It works fabulously, easily as good as the phone-line DSL solution I’ve used elsewhere.
Check out High Speed Internet in the Lunigiana
Grazie Fabrizio!