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sybilandbasil

Joined: 29 Sep 2007
Posts: 68
Location: BRIGHTON AND NR.ISSIORE

Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 2:39 pm Post subject: USING A DONGLE !!!

We only visit our maison secondaire in the Auvergne at the most 6 times a year but need to use the internet..We have a landline with France Telecom but to have broadband it would cost at least 25 euros a month which is silly because we are hardly every there. Our mobile signals are almost non-existent (Orange & Vodaphone) but at least 3 others in this tiny village have broadband. I have recently heard that we can purchase this plug-in gizmo called a dongle (£30) that we can top up like a mobile and use it on our laptop wherever we are. Any thoughts, experience or advice on this please. Our house is halfway up the Livradois Forest near Sauxillange.

martin4roberts

Joined: 30 Oct 2005
Posts: 774
Location: 56300

Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:20 pm Post subject:

sybilandbasil, not quite everywhere just where there is a good mobile signal and better 3G. Mind you can(could) get antenna for some gprs dongles.. bonne chance...m _________________ 56300 http://champdefleurs.eu

sybilandbasil

Joined: 29 Sep 2007
Posts: 68
Location: BRIGHTON AND NR.ISSIORE

Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:30 pm Post subject:

Thanks for info but we were told that the lack ofmobile signal did not matter, the dongle used the wireless signal !!!! Are we being told porkies by the people who want to sell this gizmo to us? Denise

Flaneur

Joined: 20 Feb 2009
Posts: 574
Location: Between Sunny England and Normandy

Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 7:01 pm Post subject:

sybilandbasil wrote:

Thanks for info but we were told that the lack ofmobile signal did not matter, the dongle used the wireless signal !!!! Are we being told porkies by the people who want to sell this gizmo to us? Denise Wink

The salesman is confused (or trying to be confusing ... Wink

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I suppose you could say that a dongle uses a wireless signal, but to most the term "wireless" has to do with wifi. Your laptop probably already has a wireless receiver built-in (depends on its age, of course, and spec).

A dongle, on the other hand, uses the cellphone (mobile phone) network, so how well your dongle does depends on how good a mobile signal you get.

pingu

Joined: 26 Apr 2008
Posts: 502

Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 7:20 pm Post subject: Re: USING A DONGLE !!!

sybilandbasil wrote:

We only visit our maison secondaire in the Auvergne at the most 6 times a year but need to use the internet..We have a landline with France Telecom but to have broadband it would cost at least 25 euros a month which is silly because we are hardly every there. Our mobile signals are almost non-existent (Orange & Vodaphone) but at least 3 others in this tiny village have broadband. I have recently heard that we can purchase this plug-in gizmo called a dongle (£30) that we can top up like a mobile and use it on our laptop wherever we are. Any thoughts, experience or advice on this please. Our house is halfway up the Livradois Forest near Sauxillange.

If you can get broadband with Orange, you can choose to stop the broadband and phone line when you are not there
see here:
http://www.totalfrance.com/france/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24918&postdays=0&postorder=asc&&start=0
there are some conditions of course...
you may find that this works out cheaper than the dongle which is very expensive and if you go over your download limits you pay dearly...

Pingu

sybilandbasil

Joined: 29 Sep 2007
Posts: 68
Location: BRIGHTON AND NR.ISSIORE

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 1:28 pm Post subject:

Thanks for that, now I am totally confused We fly over on thursday rather than driving this time so cannot take laptop anyway - will ask at France Telecom for help and hope we get the English speaking assistant this time !! Thanks again Denise

TempsPerdu

Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Posts: 8151
Location: Thouars (79)

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:06 pm Post subject:

You might like to look at this service: http://assistance.orange.fr/1487.php?dub=2& Regards Steve _________________ À la recherche du temps perdu - In Search of Lost Time and Remembrance of Things Past

sabc15

Joined: 26 Mar 2008
Posts: 95
Location: dept 22

Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 6:27 pm Post subject: dongle

Hi. i to have a similar dilemma. i live in dept 22, and there is no broadband connection to our commune, the marie seem to think it will be2/3years before its available, i have spoken to several mobile phone providers but they all tell a different story, so i will be watching this thread with interest. regards. stuart.

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