Portable Wi-Fi options
We have a house in Italy, occupied one month per year at most. We had Wi-Fi in the house; for some time it had worked without our being billed for it; we got there this time and it wasn’t working. I thought, rather than re-establish it paying for time when we wouldn’t use it and have what could be a long wait on a service call, I’d get a portable Wi-Fi device such as I’d used before. I have cellular data service from the Italian carrier TIM and it works as a hotspot, but for various reasons that isn’t enough.
After some misadventures with a PayPal payment going to a provider that’s disappeared, I got HipPocketWifi from France. I’m wondering what’s best to use in the future: something like this that’s a rental of hardware with service provided for the time, or purchase hardware (could it become obsolete before a few trips?), and then does some kind of arrangement for service in Italy need to be made? Or another approach?