kettle738 Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 We are new to France, buying a house near Le Bugue (24). The telephone line test site tells me the house is 5.5 km from the exchange and all France telecom can offer by way of broadband speed is 512k, none of the other providers on the site are any better.Does anyone know of any options that may be worth exploring, and is there any hope of obtaining an improvement or upgrade to the line from France Telecom?........my experience of these subjects is very limited, what are the most obvious effects of being limited to 512k?Thanks in anticipation.............kettle 738 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 [quote user="kettle738"] what are the most obvious effects of being limited to 512k?[/quote]Terminal Boredom and frustration.............[:'(]Firstly you can pretty well discount any chance of FT improving your line in the forseeable future.Realistically the only viable option is one of the satellite base services which come in 2 flavours.One where you use the phone line for upload and the download is by satellite and the other, far more expensive option, where both upload and download are via satellite. Both are useless for VOIP telephone calls because of propogation delays. Most will be capped at 2mb with a cap on data amount as well.The topic has been covered here several times and here's a link to get you started:http://www.completefrance.com/cs/forums/972330/ShowPost.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob T Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 Kettle, Give me a ring or pop round one evening. I know a bit about these things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chassaing Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 [quote user="kettle738"]We are new to France, buying a house near Le Bugue (24). The telephone line test site tells me the house is 5.5 km from the exchange and all France telecom can offer by way of broadband speed is 512k, none of the other providers on the site are any better.Does anyone know of any options that may be worth exploring, and is there any hope of obtaining an improvement or upgrade to the line from France Telecom?........my experience of these subjects is very limited, what are the most obvious effects of being limited to 512k?Thanks in anticipation.............kettle 738 [/quote]You could try testing your line here, they give alteratives based on the response...http://www.123adsl.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 [quote user="lebois"]You could try testing your line here, they give alteratives based on the response...http://www.123adsl.com/[/quote]I'll take this one with a large pinch of salt if you don't mind because it tells me I'm only able to get 1mb whereas I have a solid 2mb.This is the only online checker which reports thus and also says my line is 4dB worse than anybody else.[blink] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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