bazerd Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Despite promises by France Telecom Broadband or equivalent looks a long way off in our village in South West France. Also our basic phone line keeps breaking down so it's unreliable. Does anyone know if it is possible to have a fast sattelite connection that can be used to connect to the internet and for phone calls? if so what are the speeds like, costs and best providers. Am I asking for a miracle?Thanks in anticipation of help and advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 My advice, keep pestering them. We were told that it needed at least 60 computer users in our little bit of france before they would organise broadband. In our hamlet there are three computers, and I own two of them. My neighbour and myself phoned them, wrote to them and visited the nearest FT store and eventually we got it. It just takes effort and a lot of fuss.Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin963 Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 A friend of ours in Cornwall had a two way satellite system before Broadband came along to his village - ie it worked for both downloading and uploading. However this sort is relatively rare and pretty expensive.There's another system that's been mentioned here (back in the autumn I think) where the satellite (Atlantic Bird 1 was it at 12 deg west) downloads to you but you use a conventional dial up for the upload side. It turned out there was quite a low usage level before additional charges kicked in.I don't know if anyone actually tried it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre ZFP Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 This does work, I have friends who use this system as there is no chance of them getting broadband where there are. They have a satellite downlink and a land line uplink via the phone. Neither to downlink or uplink are very fast and yes, it's very expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Everything is possible if you're prepared to to pay the price ! http://www.satsig.net/ivsat-europe.htm EDITHybrid phone up - satellite down is useless for telephony due to the delays in the systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazerd Posted February 26, 2007 Author Share Posted February 26, 2007 Many Thanks Ernie.Do you or anyone have any direct experience of using it or know of someone? I will be investigating further - thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 For a 1st hand experience try here.http://www.frenchentree.com/france-satellite-tv-internet-pcs-telecoms/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=18482Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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