Internet Access near Lake Bolsena

As no-one else has posted a reply to you yet, tusciafolly, and as a near neighbour of yours when in Italy, (south side of the beautiful Lago di Bolsena) I thought I would post this but am sorry that it is not very helpful as I am not a "techie"!  Yes - I am fairly certain you need a phone line for Sky Fastweb.  We do have a phone line and use Telecom Italia which, though pricey after the initial offer period, has been very reliable to date.  Our neighbour gets his phone and internet through Vodafone and a dongle and seems quite happy with it but I think he uses the landline which was installed when our houses were built a few years ago.  If you look back a page or two you will see a post headed Vodafone and one of the replies from Fillide on 5 Feb is about Vodafone without a landline. Before our village got broadband a year ago some other neighbours were using Eutalia with a "receiver" of some sort on the roof.  We did look into this at a shop in Montefiascone but because of cost decided to go for Tiscali dial-up until broadband came.  Hope you find a solution.

I've been using Italia-wifi, and tho' it may seem more expensive than the dongle option, it is by no means unreliable. I have been really pleased with it and it doesn't have to be so expensive to set up as the guys there seem generous with their discount offers! Worth revisiting the website and at least look at their comparison pages and the wimax option if you don't want to go for a dish!