ADSL Providers

[Conjan1]

Hi All

Santas finally coming to town and bringing ADSL to the village. To all those with ADSL already could I get a few ideas on who to look at or avoid when upgrading to ADSL in the near future please.

Thanks for looking

Conrad 

[Deimos]

Before reviewing which ADSL provider you think might suit

your needs, I would check first which providers will actually be offering any

service.  I have had ADSL for over a

year now and other than a short time when CegeTel offered a couple of limited

speeds, Wanadoo is the only ISP providing any service.  Doesn’t matter who has what offers – for me

I can select between Wanadoo and Wanadoo (CegeTel droped out of offering

anything several months ago).

Once you have a service you can check with e.g. http://www.degrouptest.com/

(there are other similar sites and they all have errors and omissions) as to

who can provide you any service.

There are loads of threads here discussing different ISPs,

etc. and where to find out about them so you may find the info you are seeking

by looking back or searching (e.g. http://www.completefrance.com/cs/forums/588835/ShowPost.aspx).

If you are rural then your choice may be limited.  Similarly, the speed of ADSL may also be

limited.  I am 3.5Km from the exchange

and I can get 1MB (higher speeds are quoted by FT as being OK but they don’t

work).  My nearest village can only get

512K.

Ian

[BJSLIV]

Degrouptest is pretty useless for the typical Liv France users, as it only tells you if you can get Degrouped lines, which usually means that you need to be in one of the larger towns. This excludes most LF members living the peasant life out in La France Profonde!

[Sevenup]

Can anyone explain what degroupage actually means and what is its significance with regard to an ADSL connection.

[LesLauriers]

Take a look at the posting below yours in the satellite forum entitled "AliceDSL and degroupage total"

[Deimos]

http://www.degrouptest.com/ was 100% for me and I am 20Km

from the nearest town (which had ADSL a year before I got it), and I don’t even

live in a village nor a hamlet (in the middle of “nowhere”).  It was 100% on the due date, updated pretty

regularly as the schedule slipped and even now, over 1 year after I started

using ADSL with Wanadoo the France Telecom online web system still tells me

ADSL is not available in my area. 

Certainly my experience is that the http://www.degrouptest.com/ is one

of the more reliable ones and does not just work in or out of towns.

The other very useful thing http://www.degrouptest.com/

gives you is info about your line (distance to the switch, subscriber density,

etc. which can give you an idea about interest by other ISPs and the sort of

speeds you might actually achieve.

Ian