Grr, grrr, grrrr!
If you are not presently living in France, but intend to do so, a friendly piece of advice: when choosing an Internet Service Provider do not choose Orange (who really should be called Lemon).
This organisation, part of France Telecom, the national PTT, is useless.
I do not live in one of the "middles of nowhere" of which there are so many in France; I live in Evian les Bains a small, but well-known town, famous of course for its mineral water. There is absolutely no excuse for the appalling service I receive here.
This evening I used the excellent Myspeed Internet speed testing service to test the service - when the page eventually loaded that is. Myspeed gives download and upload speeds to and from a variety of locations across the world. The so-called "ADSL" (= broadband) service this evening offered 395kb/s - steam age in other words, whilst Myspeed was unable to measure the upload speed!
Pathetic.
They couldn't organise a pipi in a pissoir! It has taken half an hour to prepare this article...
Grr, grr, grr.
If you are not presently living in France, but intend to do so, a friendly piece of advice: when choosing an Internet Service Provider do not choose Orange (who really should be called Lemon).
This organisation, part of France Telecom, the national PTT, is useless.
I do not live in one of the "middles of nowhere" of which there are so many in France; I live in Evian les Bains a small, but well-known town, famous of course for its mineral water. There is absolutely no excuse for the appalling service I receive here.
This evening I used the excellent Myspeed Internet speed testing service to test the service - when the page eventually loaded that is. Myspeed gives download and upload speeds to and from a variety of locations across the world. The so-called "ADSL" (= broadband) service this evening offered 395kb/s - steam age in other words, whilst Myspeed was unable to measure the upload speed!
Pathetic.
They couldn't organise a pipi in a pissoir! It has taken half an hour to prepare this article...
Grr, grr, grr.
Until the next time
3 comments:
Bonjour, Paul,
ça faisait longtemps que je ne vous avais pas lu et notamment vos grrr(incements de dents)contre ce qui ne va pas bien en France et ailleurs: ça a fini par me manquer !
Bon mois d'août et courage pour le prochain article (à cause de: "It has taken half an hour to prepare this article")!
Fleur
Bonjour Fleur,
Longtemps bien-sûr - ça va?
Maintenant, l'internet ici fonctionne seulement au maitn - et alors lentement!
Bon mois d'aout à ous aussi.
A bientôt
ça va! et vous? (à part cet Internet si paresseux)
à bientôt
Fleur
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