http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/ Engadget Comments for French ISP Free opens up subscribers' WiFi to each other, adds handsets http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/Oct 17th 2006 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/
]]>Oct 17th 2006 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/Among the features is also the opportunity to call with a SIP (soft or hard) phone at free's rates (that is 28 contries being totally free) from any internet access, in case you dial a paid number, you're being charged on your regular monthly bill (next to your other calls).]]>Oct 18th 2006 3:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/Oct 18th 2006 4:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/
This makes me hate time warner even more, I am paying almost $100 for tv/6 meg internet THAT LOOSES 10% OF THE FRIGGING PACKETS. I kid you not, 10% of my data was lost on the internet somewhere over the last 24 hours. I am worried that I am loosing calls on vonage during those 10 second periods of inactivity ~>-(


BTW, they cap you at 64kb/s because if you have 50 people connected to the router bandwidth gets expensive quick. That and they don't want people dling warez off the free hotspots.]]>Oct 18th 2006 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/Oct 18th 2006 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/128KByte/s is 1Mbit/s (or 128KOctet/s in french. 1 Byte = 8 bits)
Free users had only 128Kb/s upload when they had 512 or 1024Kb/s download. Hopefully Free has raised that, otherwise the 24Mb/s thing would be pretty much inexistant...

This being said, there is still no problem with VoIP ! ;-)]]>Oct 18th 2006 5:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/It takes more than a month for ur freebox (modem) to be delivered home. Then, ur lucky if it works and dont need to order a second one (which will take another 1-2 months). Anyway, say its working just fine, ok.. u have internet for some hours, then freebox wants to update its firmware (it actually updates its firmware more often than it works) so bam.. it crashes, u gotta restart it a shitload of times in order to make it work again. If it doesnt, then good luck spending the next 2 months trying to contact the client support service. Also, the wifi doesnt really work. Enough with the internet.. lets pass to the 200 tv channels. The tv quality sucks (tons of freezes and noise), and the modem just crashes every 5-10 minutes when using the tv. So again, u have to restart it, and hope it will work.
Im now a subscriber at Orange (Wanadoo / France Telecom) which is more expensive, but its all worth it.. 20mbits just for me, the wifi works, no tv, no voip no extras. but im happy]]>Oct 18th 2006 5:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/Oct 18th 2006 5:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/Oct 18th 2006 7:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/i had free, my best friend had free, many people from my school, and even at school we had free and we all agree that it sucks. (all in paris though, that might change some things?)]]>Oct 18th 2006 5:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/Free will connect the whole France with fiber channel ( FTTH )...

http://www.freenews.fr/index.php?itemid=3782
http://www.iliad.fr/presse/2006/CP_11092006_cp1.pdf

... And Paris will be fully connected for free ( if you want to visit Paris !! )

Some more jealous ?? ;)]]>Oct 18th 2006 5:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/
We moved from the usa about a year ago, and I looked around in France for various ISP offers. Free is outstanding, delivery was indeed slow, but i have never had any problems (not with WIFI or TV) since. We also get free calls to most european countries, usa, china, and many more. Its a pretty amazing deal.]]>Oct 18th 2006 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/Oct 18th 2006 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/
]]>Oct 18th 2006 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/Oct 18th 2006 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/Oct 18th 2006 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/http://www.trustonme.net/forum/public/post.php?cat=5&topic=2209&page=2
it apprears they allow it (a bit) during the night.
]]>Oct 18th 2006 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/Apr 18th 2007 5:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/Apr 19th 2007 6:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/My internet connection is France Telecom, Orange.
Orange did not inform me that it was intending to block EMULE, so there is an integrity question there.
I normally live in Australia, and this sort of conduct certainly would not be tolerated there.
France telecom, Orange may think it has the right to block what ever it wants, but it should also inform its clients before it does.
I have spent the last month trying to evaluate why EMULE had stoped working.

I shall change providers.
Trévor]]>Dec 19th 2006 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/
The fact that you can stream any media from your computer to the TV with Free sounds pretty nice. Wish I'd known about that around 30 minutes ago. We currently have a Mac Mini set up to be our media center, using bluetooth mouse and keyboard with movies and kids videos on a spare hard drive. We also use two Airport Express wifi stations to stream audio playback to speakers.

We're pretty sure noos.fr is NOT the best service to go with in Paris. But of the DSL services, how would you rank the major options (Orange Livebox, Neuf, Free, etc.)? Anybody know anything about Livebox that might surprise us down the line?]]>Jun 6th 2007 5:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/french-isp-free-opens-up-subscribers-wifi-to-each-other-adds-h/Mar 8th 2008 6:35AM