Internet speeds in Villelongue dels months

Sue · Post by **Sue** » Fri 18 Apr 2014 11:07

There is a member of the FB Group moving to Villelongue dels Monts and would like to know which internet provider provides the fastest speed. What are the views of you who live there. Thanks.

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Fri 18 Apr 2014 11:13

We have Free.fr as our ISP and we get about 5 mg download...a bit less in evenings

Sue · Post by **Sue** » Fri 18 Apr 2014 11:15

Thanks Nigel

Ariègeoise · Post by **Ariègeoise** » Fri 18 Apr 2014 11:33

Sue wrote:There is a member of the FB Group moving to Villelongue dels Monts and would like to know which internet provider provides the fastest speed.

That would be me! Thought it would be a good idea to join this forum too. I live in the Ariège - not moving full-time but buying a little house as second home and for letting - signing the acte this Thursday.

Thanks Nigel for your response - hope to meet you one day!

Sue · Post by **Sue** » Fri 18 Apr 2014 11:36

Welcome Ariegeoise both to the Forum and FB.

Post by **Kate** » Fri 18 Apr 2014 13:24

A warm welcome Ariègeoise. Lots of adventures, new people and places ahead.

martyn94 · Post by **martyn94** » Sat 19 Apr 2014 08:46

Sue wrote:There is a member of the FB Group moving to Villelongue dels Monts and would like to know which internet provider provides the fastest speed. What are the views of you who live there. Thanks.

Your speed will depend primarily on the characteristics of your line (distance from the exchange, thickness of the cables). You can find this out, and get an estimate of the resulting speed, on eg ariase.com. I don't think you are likely to find major differences in performance between operators, although there can be special cases as respects particular heavily-used sites.

Ariègeoise · Post by **Ariègeoise** » Sun 20 Apr 2014 23:50

Thanks all for the warm welcome! We nearly moved to 66 nearly 9 years ago, when we first moved to France, but couldn't afford what we wanted (big house for chambres d'hôtes, with some land) so ended up in the Ariège. Love it there but still spend a lot of time in the Albères in winter.

I have used ariase.com in the past, martyn, but the trouble is that I don't trust it! When I've done a test for speed and providers here at home, not only does it get the available speed on my line wrong but it even gets the dégroupage wrong as well ...

It looks as though I can hope to get somewhere around 5 to 6Mbits, which is more than fine. Just need to find a provider with decent service (hah!). Here, I've been with Nordnet since 2007 and compared to friends who have Orange or Free or SFR have had a blessedly easy time, but they're now focusing on satellite internet so not open to new adsl contracts apparently.

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Mon 21 Apr 2014 07:54

Always nice to meet new people in the village ...let us know when you are here

martyn94 · Post by **martyn94** » Mon 21 Apr 2014 08:11

Ariègeoise wrote:
I have used ariase.http://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/e11401.m1 ... xe,ext=ext in the past, martyn, but the trouble is that I don't trust it! When I've done a test for speed and providers here at home, not only does it get the available speed on my line wrong but it even gets the dégroupage wrong as well ...

It looks as though I can hope to get somewhere around 5 to 6Mbits, which is more than fine. Just need to find a provider with decent service (hah!). Here, I've been with Nordnet since 2007 and compared to friends who have Orange or Free or SFR have had a blessedly easy time, but they're now focusing on satellite internet so not open to new adsl contracts apparently.

If you don't like ariase, try eg degrouptest.com. But they all use the same phone line database (which you can access directly if I could remember where).

I doubt that you have lost much by not getting Nordnet adasl: they have been an Orange subsidiary for years now ( nor is their service uniformly good in my experience).

There are, however, significant differences between the different boxes, tv packages etc, which could be worth researching.

montgolfiere · Post by **montgolfiere** » Mon 21 Apr 2014 10:19

We have been with Alice (now taken over by Free) since our village got adsl. 6 or 7 years ago and, apart from one replacement Router after a Thunderstorm, have had a very reliable service. We only get 2.1mb/s (max) (it only drops to 1.9 at peak times) and although not able to get the 'Free French TV' service i am able to happily stream FTA UK Live TV/ Films/ Series etc. via an IPTV Android Box in HD.

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