Thanks Lorenzo, all,
I'll take you up on your offer for English just for this post 🙂
From what I've understood so far, I won't go far wrong if I choose Dimensione or Planet Fibre. They seem both to be serious players.
In my experience often the choice (or wrong) of vendor is most obvious at the beginning/end of the relationship, and of course when there's an outage. In normal 'steady state' - as long as there's no over subscribing (as said, in our case we are the only two houses in the street, and it's a very unpopulated area) so hopefully there shouldn't be a contention ratio issue (but honestly as long as I get close to 2Gbps I'll be happy - and not because I "need", it but just to know I got the best service I could at the time, and will probably not need to upgrade for a few years to come. Out of interest though - what are the parameters that could affect the sync rate (if such concept exists) for a FTTH connection. With VDSL we paid close attention to Distance, SNR, attenuation etc. In the world of Fibre - all things being equal - would there still be a situation that the CPE syncs at a lower rate than 2.5gbps?
One other small (Fibre newbie) question comes to mind. I usually don't have any telephone connected to my line (when I attach a phone it only ever rings with telesales 😕) - but it's there for emergencies. With both providers there's this option for a VOIP number - would these usually be supplied with a local prefix (eg. 031 for Como) ? In any case, if there's no power, there's no phone line so for emergency I shouldn't really consider this right? What do you guys think about that? Is that just the way technology has progressed so, the old days of having always a phone connected in case you need to call emergency services have passed right (anyway by now we all use mobiles 100% of the time). I guess this would serve as a backup in case the mobile networks were down (though most seem to support wifi calling now), so for 2€ a month it's worth having.
For a backup solution I was also looking at Starlink as a viable option. There's the initial outlay for the kit (300€), but then, as far as I can tell, it could be offline till I need it with their 'roam' package. I could also take it with me for vacations etc. (solving another issue I have when I'm in the deep south of Ireland). Then again, 5G also does the job for much less if I get the right router.
Sentite libero a rispondere in Italiano (ovviamente) 😀
