SFR/Neuf Customers in France, Can One of You Help!
Posted: Sat 13 Aug 2011 13:37
Hi Guys,
I've been coming to our family apartment in Antibes for almost 5 years now and have still not managed to come up with a decent broadband solution. After several years of internet cafes etc I signed up for a 3g key from Bouygues Telecom and it's expensive and very slow/unreliable.
There are several wireless networks available from my apartment, the one with the strongest signal is a SFR/NEUF customer, the "SFR Wifi Public" and "SFR Wifi Mobile" networks are available but to use them you need to obviously be a SFR customer.
I've tried to find the owner of this network but with all the apartment buildings around it's very hard to work out who exactly owns it (nobody replied to my notes I put up:)
I also looked into the FON option but again whoever owns this connection has not enabled it for this and I have no way of contacting them to request they do.
So my last resort is to try and find a current SFR customer that will let me pay them to use their mobile login details. As far as I know this is reasonably secure in that it does not give me access to anything else, I'd be happy to verify who I am with you also just to assume you I am genuine and not going to misuse this service.
I tend to be over here about 3-4 weeks of the year so paying for broadband for the year does not make sense. That said, I run an internet based business for a living so I need some kind of reliable service for the time I am here that works better than my current 3g setup.
If anyone would be willing to help me out with this I'd really appreciate it and would be happy to pay you €50-100 per year or whatever you think is reasonable for the privilege.
I'm here in Antibes till next Friday so if anyone were able to get in touch with be before then that would really help so I could test it while here.
Many Thanks,
Robert
I've been coming to our family apartment in Antibes for almost 5 years now and have still not managed to come up with a decent broadband solution. After several years of internet cafes etc I signed up for a 3g key from Bouygues Telecom and it's expensive and very slow/unreliable.
There are several wireless networks available from my apartment, the one with the strongest signal is a SFR/NEUF customer, the "SFR Wifi Public" and "SFR Wifi Mobile" networks are available but to use them you need to obviously be a SFR customer.
I've tried to find the owner of this network but with all the apartment buildings around it's very hard to work out who exactly owns it (nobody replied to my notes I put up:)
I also looked into the FON option but again whoever owns this connection has not enabled it for this and I have no way of contacting them to request they do.
So my last resort is to try and find a current SFR customer that will let me pay them to use their mobile login details. As far as I know this is reasonably secure in that it does not give me access to anything else, I'd be happy to verify who I am with you also just to assume you I am genuine and not going to misuse this service.
I tend to be over here about 3-4 weeks of the year so paying for broadband for the year does not make sense. That said, I run an internet based business for a living so I need some kind of reliable service for the time I am here that works better than my current 3g setup.
If anyone would be willing to help me out with this I'd really appreciate it and would be happy to pay you €50-100 per year or whatever you think is reasonable for the privilege.
I'm here in Antibes till next Friday so if anyone were able to get in touch with be before then that would really help so I could test it while here.
Many Thanks,
Robert