Voda 100gb card in France tip

[ceejayt]

FYI arrived in France stayed at Cite Europe - it just worked - streamed Spiderman Home coming

Moved on next day - virtually useless. Was throttled to less than 2g even though it said SFR4g. Went in to HUAWEI settings in the app, turned off auto detect network and selected Orange - works like a dream the last three days. Now South West Of Paris and getting 30 meg download.

Hop that helps some of you

 

[DavidG58]

I read it that you were so disappointed that you had thrown the sim card into a French tip

 

[ceejayt]

I knew it should work, just needed some tweaking. SFR clearly don’t play nice with roaming.

 

[DBK]

FYI arrived in France stayed at Cite Europe - it just worked - streamed Spiderman Home coming

Moved on next day - virtually useless. Was throttled to less than 2g even though it said SFR4g. Went in to HUAWEI settings in the app, turned off auto detect network and selected Orange - works like a dream the last three days. Now South West Of Paris and getting 30 meg download.

Hop that helps some of you

In other places in France SFR will be better. Orange isn't the answer everywhere. I've found you just have to try both if you are in a place with a weak signal.

 

[Happy Jim]

Voda (and others) have “preferred roaming partners” where they don’t have their own physical networks- flipping to manual searches is good for you, bad for them (tough luck)!

Jim

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[ceejayt]

In other places in France SFR will be better. Orange isn't the answer everywhere. I've found you just have to try both if you are in a place with a weak signal.

Don't see why - it was showing SFR as full bars and 4G - why would it be better elsewhere? Now in the East of France heading fo0r Germany and Orange still holding up well.

 

[2657]

Don't see why - it was showing SFR as full bars and 4G - why would it be better elsewhere? Now in the East of France heading fo0r Germany and Orange still holding up well.

The strength of the signal is not the only factor affecting signal speed, if you are in an area of high iseage by others the strength will be degraded in exactly the same way that site wifi is affected by the number of users.

I have switched to 3G before now and obtained faster speeds.

As others have said the signal varies throughout France, we have a static in S. Brittany and all networks are poor but Orange is slightly better than SFR.

 

[ceejayt]

So, now in Germany (just) at Europa Park.

Switched back to Auto as Otange no good. Auto again selected SFR excellent 4g signal but again totally throttled.

Made manual selection of Deutschland Telekom and got 20meg download.

 

[Camdoon]

Wife was watching tv in back and I was watching live football in front. Quite happily coped with both. Was happier when phone in front of van. Bordeaux area.

 

[G-RMPS]

Why not just stay at home?

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[JockandRita]

Not across the Channel, I grant you, but in Ireland (north and south), for the main, our Vodafone 100Gb Sim card picked up 4G, (without having to manually change providers) and most nights we were streaming online Catchup TV. At £13.85 a month (with cashback), I am pleased I went ahead with the deal, and hoping to utilise it further, when in Spain over winter.

Cheers,

Jock.

 

[Guigsy]

Last few years in Europe I've been using Three. I was always flipping between networks to try and get something resembling a good connection.

This year we were all over Europe from February until a couple of weeks ago. We popped in and out of France several times. I've switched all our SIMs to Vodafone. We've got 50GB allowance on the MiFi (with external aerial) and 20GB on each of our phones. We burnt through the MiFi limit every month. I never once needed to manually swap networks.

The only places we had a poor connection was at some of the large sporting events we went to. If the local masts are sized for the local population, then for a few days a year they get tens of thousands of additional users during for an event, even if you can 'see' 4 bars, there'll be no capacity on the network for you to actually make a call or send and receive data.