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Hi,

We're moving to the Aveyron soon and are not sure whether the village we're moving to has broadband.  We've heard that it may be possible to obtain broadband internet access via a satelite dish.  Does anybody know whether this is correct, and if so can you point us in the right direction?

Many thanks,

Heather & Jon.

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I’d start off by checking if you can get ADSL through your

telephone line.  Loads of web sites

offer checking service (e.g. France Telecom http://www.agence.francetelecom.com/mx/?tp=php&donnee_appel=FTASN&IDCible=1&type=2&code_rubrique=5-185782).  I’d only start thinking about Satellite

(which is expensive and tends to require a telephone line as well) if you

cannot get ADSL.  If you don’t yet have

your telephone number then use somebody elses (e.g. the Marie, a local shop,

neighbours, etc.)

 

Ian

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[quote user="Deimos"]

I’d start off by checking if you can get ADSL through your telephone line.  Loads of web sites offer checking service (e.g. France Telecom [/quote]

I have tried checking the FT site on several occasions. It spends some time pondering after I put my phone number in, then simply says something along the lines of "have checked 02********; do you want to check another number?"  No result offered or anything.
As I frequently check in the degrouptest website - only to find the multiple answers "impossible, impossible, impossible" - I am presuming that the FT site is giving me an equally negative answer.

I should say that this is for a residence secondaire in the rural Vendee (the Conseil General boasts 100% broadband throughout the department now!), so I am not wishing to spend a king's ransom on "wi fi". My *commune* is surfing gaily along on broadband, as are my friends in the rest of its satellite hamlets.  It's just my particular hamlet that seems to be in a broadband "black hole".   [:@]

Angela

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