Hey, good luck finding a decent internet connection outside of the main cities. My parents live an hour from Milan and they get 3G at best.

It's not like in other nations there's great internet in the countryside.

...and having worked remotely with people from Southern California for the last couple of years, it looks like they're in a generally worse state than us (northern Italians), at least from a network stability perspective

I live in a very small town 40Km from Milan and I get 20Mb/s ADSL: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4061090445

Lombardy is not Italy, you know. Come down here in Catanzaro (where i'm from) and let's talk about this again.