[znpy]

It really depends on the price. At 150k€ they're not worth buying, at 1€ plus taxes, deposits and various renovation works... Maybe.

One might get a nice vacation house for cheap.

One of such houses (not those shown in the video) was actually near the places where I grew up. Such place is nowadays decently connected (still sub-optimal, but decent). If somebody was forward-looking enough could have bought property for extremely cheap and would be working from there now.

In my opinion, one of the big factors in evaluating a house is the nearby infrastructure, mainly connectivity and railroads / public transport in general. You'll need those anyway. If they're either not present or subpar then you should value the property less imho.

Edit: decently connected means a fttc (fiber to the cabinet, copper on last mile) connection, max speeds being 1gbps down / 100 mbps up, for 25-35 €/month -- you'll never reach such speeds of course, but even one tenth of that would still be usable for most things.

[pedrocr]

How would you ever get 1Gb/s over a copper last mile?

[znpy]

You don't of course, because you mostly can't. Yeah there might be some kind of technology to push the speed to that limit, but I don't expect to see speed pushed in the kind of areas where houses are sold basically at loss for 1€.

So, long story short: that's the advertised speed.

[pedrocr]

Advertised speed usually means it's technically possible, even if it doesn't happen in practice. It seems there is indeed 1Gb/s VSDL technology but at least Wikipedia doesn't list any such deployment in Italy. But even 100Mb/s is good enough connectivity in my experience with fiber and apparently that's common for FTTC deployments.

[icebraining]

Might not be DSL, but DOCSIS (coaxial), as part of an HFC system[1]. Version 3.1 can reach over 1Gbps, though that rather depends on how many people you are sharing it with.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_fiber-coaxial

[def_true_false]

The last mile in FTTC is more like the last few meters.

[pedrocr]

Sure, but VSDL will still top out at 300/100 Mb/s even over short distances:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDSL

But apparently there is indeed a new standard for Gbit DSL up to 100m:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.fast

[kockic]

Maybe starlink?

[znpy]

Starlink is not live for general usage yet.