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WiFi Dongle in Sicily

Silkweed — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 18:40:11 GMT

I will be in Sicily for three weeks, I normally find the o2 coverage (whoever the Italian carrier is for o2) is dreadful. I need a decent connection for meetings, can you advize me what I should do please? I presume getting a dongle would only mean getting the same bad connection?

Thanks

Re: WiFi Dongle in Sicily

Cleoriff — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 18:47:09 GMT

@Silkweed

I went to Spain a lot and before I had Wifi put in the apartment, I used a dongle for my PC. However I used a local pay as you go sim which gave me a great connection.
Just a thought?

Re: WiFi Dongle in Sicily

MI5 — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 19:15:31 GMT

@Silkweed

https://www.worldsim.com/?srsltid=AfmBOopp6IcNYz7mg0KJPJtN2ghkUd4bwEhKpFpDmZI1MkeA4e4-9atc

Re: WiFi Dongle in Sicily

Silkweed — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 19:18:20 GMT

@Cleoriff

Thanks, obviously the phone picks up with the local carrier but is absolute rubbish, I dont know how o2 have the cheek to say it's working fine when it isn't.

So would I be better off getting a seperate dongle with a local sim card to use as the hot spot do you think? If so could you reccomend a dongle?

Thanks.

Re: WiFi Dongle in Sicily

Silkweed — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 20:39:04 GMT

The prices are through the roof, id never use them.

Re: WiFi Dongle in Sicily

Cleoriff — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 21:57:50 GMT

@Silkweed

I used an Huawei dongle but any would do. The local payg sim gave a good connection. I paid for the length of usage for the time I was there (Between 1-2 weeks). I found it quite inexpensive and it always worked well.

The networks Sicily uses are Vodafone, Wind or TIM.

Re: WiFi Dongle in Sicily

Enlli — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 21:58:06 GMT

Did you try manually selecting other networks, even those shown as 'Forbidden' you can usually connect to more than one

O2 have no power over the signal on the roaming networks, nor do Customer Service have any idea of your signal quality. As far as they are concerned you are able to roam

Re: WiFi Dongle in Sicily

MI5 — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 22:12:51 GMT

@Silkweed wrote:
The prices are through the roof, id never use them.

You are indeed paying for a service, that actually works, so your choice.

Cheap and rubbish or more expensive and functional.