Wi-Fi in Rome April 2012

There have been a number of posts on the board concerning Wi-Fi and Internet availability in Rome. (For example, here is a good rundown: http://www.ricksteves.com/graffiti/helpline/index.cfm?topic=78958 Here is a report on my April visit to Rome when I found plenty of available Internet. Many cafes and restaurants were sporting "Free Wifi" decals in their windows. I stopped in a restaurant and was able to use their Wi-Fi after the waiter provided the requisite username and password. No one asked to see my passport. There is also a large Internet Point café with plenty of terminals in the old historic section of the city, at the corner of Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and Via dei Chiavari, at the Piazza Sant'Andrea della Valle. That's a couple of blocks south of the Piazza Navona. If you are using a terminal in Italy, note that the keyboards differ somewhat from the ones in the US. To get the @ sign required in email addresses, press the "Alt Gr" key just to the right of the spacebar, and then press the key that has the @ symbol (along with a couple of other symbols) above. To get rid of CAP LOCKS, press the LOCK key.
You can erase your browsing history by ing "Strument: and then "Elinina" from the menus along the top of the screen. If you are using mobile devices and have trouble with the pages of services such as Gmail and Yahoo, use the free service at mail2web.com. This is a clutter-free interface where you can enter your username and password to retrieve your email. Hope the above helps. This trip I left my laptop with its heavy transformer home, and instead carried a Blackberry Playbook. That tablet is about half the size and weight of an Ipad and fits handily in my jacket pocket.