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    HADOPI Letter

    in French Satellite TV, French Internet and Telephone

    Posted

    Few if any ISP provided routers will have any meaningful facilities for throttling much less the setting of quotas and it's the latter which would be the real key to inhibiting downloading as most things downloaders will be after will quickly and easily bust a couple of hundred MB's long before completion leaving them with nothing to even surf with and they will have some cheek if they come bleating to you about that !

    HADOPI Letter

    in French Satellite TV, French Internet and Telephone

    Posted

    Typically in public locations like airports say such systems require an email address (which doesn't have to be real and [email protected] usually works !), or on a more local basis such as hotels etc. by the issuing of a one time access code so it's not generally onerous.

    The system linked to is HADOPI proof by virtue of it prohibiting access to P2P/torrent sites, something anybody with a bit of nous can do themselves with a proxy PC as I mentioned earlier.

    Having thought about it a bit another technique comes to mind and that is traffic shaping by which I mean restricting the bandwidth and the quantity of data available to individual  users and whilst that won't stop them actually visiting P2P sites and attempting to download via torrents if the speed and the data allocation are set low then it becomes pointless as they will never be able to get whatever it is they are after so will give up trying.

    For simple surfing, FaceTwit, and email etc., all you practically need to provide, 256kb speed and say a 200mb quota should be enough.

    You can buy WiFi access points with traffic shaping software or you can use an off the shelf router which supports the openWRT firmware which is FREE.

    HADOPI Letter

    in French Satellite TV, French Internet and Telephone

    Posted

    [quote user="Cathar Tours"]Basically you need to get their name, address etc. plus the mac address of their device. You can collect the latter when they login via the portal but the free versions don't allow you to store their name, address etc. so you would have to keep a paper list.

    This means you may still get a letter but you can hand over the users name, address, phone number and mac address (the latter they will have anyway) then they will go after them and not you.[/quote]You think ?

    MAC addresses can be spoofed but even if not there is no log or record of what machine any  particular and genuine MAC address belongs to making it useless for tracing anybody and just what do you imagine they are going to do to a 3rd party anyway even if they did track them down ?

    The bottom line, at Chancers level at least, is that the account holder is responsible for everything and even if they were the offenders laying it off to others won't wash.

    The stupidity and futility of HADOPI is that it can only monitor P2P or torrents, it cannot monitor direct downloads so anybody so minded can download what they want whenever they want and for as long as they want and with a risk factor so low as to be dismissed as next to non existent.

    HADOPI Letter

    in French Satellite TV, French Internet and Telephone

    Posted

    Effectively blocking torrents is not only technically challenging but is also constantly moving target because for every method or technique used there will be as many or more ways to defeat them many of which those inclined to use torrents will be familiar with.

    There are commercial solutions but you could be talking thousands of Euros.

    One possible solution which I would consider in the circumstances is a proxy PC through which all users have to connect, this can be set up with a blacklist of prohibited sites but this would only be as secure as my diligence in setting up and maintaining the filtering, as I'm certain you lost me after the first syllable of proxy such a solution is probably not for you !

    The only 100% guaranteed way I'm aware of is direct physical supervision of users !

    EDF in France, English speaking contact numbers

    in NEW - Money Saving Expat

    Posted

    [quote user="vivienz"]In doing my utility research, I've come across the following page on the EDF site that lists dedicated English-speaking phone numbers for the various departments in France.

    http://residential.edf.com/customer-services/contact/contact-us-by-phone-208807.html

    [/quote]Not here it doesn't, it brings up a Erreur 404 Page non trouvée and even if you click on the France Metropolitiane tab then Help and Contact then Contact EDF by phone all you get is the one catch all number:

    +33 (0)9 69 36 63 83

    If you've really found actual departmental numbers (which I doubt as I can't believe EDF have English help lines in every department) maybe better you just publish them.

    buying from Amazon.fr and paying with sterling credit card?

    in Shopping

    Posted

    [quote user="mint"]I bought something from Germany, using my NW card but paying them in euros and no rate was dictated by the company and I saw on my CC account that the rate of the day was used in calculating the sterling equivalent.[/quote]I don't think you can rationally compare buying from an individual or company in another country with buying through a multinational like Amazon.

    For many items Amazon are just acting as an agent, much like Paypal is an agent for eBay, so a sterling payment will be been accepted as such then internally converted to Euros to pass on to the seller with a cut for Amazon for the service.

    Sending A Book to the UK

    in Shopping

    Posted

    [quote user="woolybanana"]La Poste will extract the maximum.[/quote]You make it sound like they will try to cheat you somehow when all they will do is charge according to the weight and size and the prescribed tariff's therefore, the same as any postal service.

    Necessity to translate documents

    in Health

    Posted

    Centrally processed or not (are you sure you're not talking about non S1 applications ?) AFAIK applications are still submitted via local CPAM offices in which case the only possible conclusive answer to the question is 'whatever they demand' and woe betide anybody who questions it or quotes EU rules to them !

    Driving licences have been processed centrally since 2013 but that doesn't stop individual prefectures demanding translations of UK ones.

    Mobile phones: data limit exceeded caused by Google?

    in French Satellite TV, French Internet and Telephone

    Posted

    [quote user="Clair"]Google Maps features may be the cause of the massive increase in data usage.[/quote]All relative I suppose but hard to categorise 50mB of data as 'massive' by any measure, you could blow that and more on a single web page or an email [blink]

    Oddly enough I was reading that very piece about Google barely 10 minutes ago !

    Good to see you back also [kiss]

    Buying a car help required please

    in French Legal Issues

    Posted

    [quote user="Cathar Tours"][quote user="Mikew"]If you are a UK resident you cannot legally drive a French registered car in UK...[/quote]

    Sorry but I am not sure what that has to do with anything. If you read the original post they want to take it to, and keep it France.[/quote]Which necessarily involves driving it in UK which, as UK residents, they are prohibited from doing.

    In the circumstances trailering the car to the port of departure is the only 100% legitimate way of getting it out of the UK, get stopped driving it and seizure is a very real possibility with a prosecution for no insurance to boot.

    Mindless Pointless Nonsense?

    in Travelling to/from France

    Posted

    Must be port by port because I had no such nonsense when travelling Dunkirk\Dover recently.

    What I did experience though was a completely pointless double vehicle search on entry to Dunkirk prior to checkin, the first by French security then a mere 20 or 30m on and having driven past two armed French security guards a second identical check by UK border security.

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