Misty1 Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 Hi. We coming to France tomorrow for a few days and would like to pick up and send email, pehaps some browsing.We can bring with us an old Win98 laptop with an internal modem and have a standard French Telecom phone line at our destination (I pay the phone bill).We don't have a French ISP or a UK to French telephone jack converter.I can understand Klingon better than I can French .Is there an easy way of doing this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suein56 Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 If you are already a France Telecom customer and have a FT shop near you then a dial-up connection can normally be arranged the same day. You go into the shop armed with a RIB from your French Bank, a copy of an EDF bill and possibly an old FT bill.We did just this before we were even resident here when we were staying in a rented Gite which had an FT line [with the owner's approval I must add]. Edit: There is a contract with FT involved in this but it is not time defined and is easy to cancel with one month's notice at any time.Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misty1 Posted March 31, 2007 Author Share Posted March 31, 2007 That's excellent! I think we can meet all counts and we have to go into Perpignian on our first day anyhow.Thank you.Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suein56 Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 [quote user="Misty1"] Hi. We coming to France tomorrow for a few days and would like to pick up and send email, pehaps some browsing.We can bring with us an old Win98 laptop with an internal modem and have a standard French Telecom phone line at our destination (I pay the phone bill).We don't have a French ISP or a UK to French telephone jack converter.I can understand Klingon better than I can French .Is there an easy way of doing this? [/quote]Sorry missed this before:The FT shop or any reasonably big supermarket or Brico place such as Weldom should do an [RJ45?] connection cable with a telephone jack on the end. In the FT shops they are usually pretty good at finding someone to help out if you have problems with French.I would be a little careful doing lots of surfing with Win98 though - AFAIK Zonealarm and most AV have stopped doing updates for it - so be watchful.Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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