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I suspect some kind of throttling or capacity issue.
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you're right, this is a italian trouble (Wind and others
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The fact that it often connects first time early in the morning (Italians still asleep? Date change?) and successfully transfers megabytes of data (I was loading news pages to keep it going, and even doing Windows Updates) but then refuses to connect for hours afterwards suggests to me that that subsequent connections are being refused because 'I've used my share'. Maybe they're restricting 'tethering' - as mentioned elsewhere.
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The problem is that some town (Vibo Valentia) has a good coverage but with a minimal number of BTS. Expecially in the South (or in rural areas) Wind tries to have coverage using not so much BTS, so you have that kind of problem on
peak hours. The network can't work so many connections between calls and data, so the priority is for the calls
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I also wondered whether, in some small places, the local GPRS capacity is low. I was on the small island of Capraia (population about 200?) for 3 days and only got a connection once during that time - very early in the morning of the day I left. Maybe it's only sized for 5 connections in total or something?
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In Capraia (population 375
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