Tilly Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 Please don't shoot me down.I bought my daughter a laptop for xmas; she's at uni and now not on campus in 2nd yr, (not so easy access to computers) so I wanted to do this for her).A couple of questions, may I? Next year (September) she will be at uni in France for a year. Will she be able to use the laptop, do I need to get, or arrange anything, so that she can? Most uni accommodation has internet access here, is it so in France? She won't say what she needs, so I have to pre-empt!Also, and this is not to do with France I am afraid, but is to do with me being a coward! I have heard about a card that you can get , if you have maybe a laptop, to connect to a mobile phone, to send e-mails etc. The truth is, I don't want to go into Curry's/Dixon's and have 19 yr olds look at me like ??? Is there a card that you can buy to enable you to connect to the internet with your phone, via a laptop? And when your child is in France, what is the best way of staying in contact? I ask because when she has been working there before, mobile phone conversations have been fraught with difficulties, and such a short distance, we must have been doing something wrong! Tilly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazan Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 See this link http://www.frenchentree.com/fe-techcorner/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=435 for a description of French internet access and how to set it up.Yes, you can get a connector for some mobile phones that will allow you to use them as a modem, with the right ISP. This is very expensive and slow though. A simple PAYG dial-up connection will be very cheap and cheerful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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