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Last post by Hotrodder
Fri May 12, 2023 9:34 am
Please help : faulty Sky decoder ?
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by
Biloute »
Sat Apr 30, 2022 4:39 pm
Hello everyone ! Usually, I'm the person in the village who people come to ask for DIY advice. But, this time, I did not know what to answer !...
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Last post by suein56
Fri May 13, 2022 10:06 am
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Last post by RobertArthur
Sun May 01, 2022 5:43 pm
France - Internet Cable Damage
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by
niemeyjt »
Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:04 pm
Resilience should mean services still run, albeit slowly:
Internet down in multiple cities across France after suspected sabotage
Internet...
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Last post by Spectrum
Fri Apr 29, 2022 8:53 am
Printers
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by
Blaze »
Wed Apr 27, 2022 6:07 pm
My iMac desktop isn't compatible with our HP printer which is too old to be supported by Apple for the iMac. I have to print by transferring to my...
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Last post by Blaze
Thu Apr 28, 2022 3:49 pm
Bouygues fixed line
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by
Blaze »
Mon Apr 25, 2022 1:59 pm
We've recently transferred from Orange to Bouygues and are very happy with the service.
Today the phone rang and on the screen it said Extended call...
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Last post by Polarengineer
Mon Apr 25, 2022 8:58 pm
Editing on this forum
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by
L Austin France »
Tue Apr 19, 2022 1:46 pm
Why is it that the time allowed for editing a post before, announcing this fact on said post, varies .
Sometimes I can edit a post a few hours after...
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Last post by Char
Thu Apr 21, 2022 4:35 pm
For the gamers . . .
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by
niemeyjt »
Wed Apr 13, 2022 6:39 am
For all those who just cannot get enough time at their gaming console, or whose offspring cannot . . .
now they just need to build in a...
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Last post by hughnique
Thu Apr 14, 2022 12:24 pm
annoying ads
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by
hughnique »
Sun Apr 10, 2022 9:31 am
I recently purchased some light fittings from a company based in Paris, I pondered buying them for a few days, both on my tower and OH's laptop. End...
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Last post by p4psb
Tue Apr 12, 2022 11:26 am
EDF & LED
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by
L Austin France »
Thu Apr 07, 2022 10:34 am
Just had an email perporting to come from EDF offering 25 LED ampoules for 1,95€.
Seems genuine but I'm always suspicious of things like this.
Any...
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Last post by Polarengineer
Thu Apr 07, 2022 7:35 pm
Samsung account
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by
Mangetout »
Wed Apr 06, 2022 10:11 am
I use a Samsung tablet. I use Google chrome and Samsung Internet. Since yesterday my tablet keeps asking me to sign into my Samsung account. It...
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Last post by exile
Wed Apr 06, 2022 11:03 pm
Superb internet connection
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by
Blaze »
Mon Mar 21, 2022 2:31 pm
Following my topic about our appalling internet connection, I can now say that we have a superb connection.
A technician came down from Paris (!) and...
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Last post by Blaze
Thu Mar 24, 2022 12:41 pm
Phoning a UK mobile
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by
Hotrodder »
Mon Mar 14, 2022 8:55 pm
I would like to contact a friend who is in France at the moment with his UK mobile. What is the procedure for dialing it? Do I need to add the UK...
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Last post by DaveW
Tue Mar 15, 2022 4:25 pm
Why can't I watch my You Tube videos?
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by Spardo » Mon Mar 14, 2022 3:30 pm
But everybody else in the world can. And I can watch all of theirs.
All I get is the circle going round and round and then this message:
An error...
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Last post by Spardo
Tue Mar 15, 2022 12:08 pm
Norton Renewal
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by
hughnique »
Sun Mar 13, 2022 11:01 am
I have been with Norton for many years now and my subscription is up in a couple of days. In the past I have been able to make contact with a human...
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Last post by Spardo
Mon Mar 14, 2022 6:39 pm
Orange Scam
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by
Sparkle »
Wed Mar 09, 2022 4:12 pm
I just thought I'd mention that I received one of these this afternoon.
Hovering over the email address it came from:...
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Last post by Sparkle
Fri Mar 11, 2022 7:23 pm
Orange TV decoder
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by
L Austin France »
Thu Mar 10, 2022 12:43 pm
This morning we had a letter from Orange telling us that our existing decoder would cease to function on 13/4/22 & that a new one would be sent via...
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Last post by L Austin France
Fri Mar 11, 2022 2:16 pm
Appalling internet connection
Replies: 21
by
Blaze »
Sun Mar 06, 2022 9:12 am
I was relieved to see that we are not the only ones because our Orange connection is similar to this Welsh village :
It's worse than it was when we...
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Last post by Blaze
Tue Mar 08, 2022 4:25 pm
Scam
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by
Hotrodder »
Wed Mar 02, 2022 11:08 am
I don't tend to get much spam in the email these days but there has been a glut of these for a few months now.
The gist seems to be something about...
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Last post by Hotrodder
Thu Mar 03, 2022 11:04 am
Half a white screen?
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by
Spectrum »
Sun Feb 27, 2022 11:09 am
This past few days while reading the news the righthand side of the screen has gone white, at the top there is this ngina/1.18 (ubuntv) at the bottom...
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Last post by RobertArthur
Thu Mar 03, 2022 10:06 am
Infected bank emails
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by
MAD87 »
Thu Feb 24, 2022 11:12 am
I still have 2 UK bank accounts - Barclays/Barclaycard and Nationwide.
2 emails have recently been bounced by Orange as containing viruses :...
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Last post by MAD87
Fri Feb 25, 2022 1:54 pm
Any one ditched Phonexpat recently?
Replies: 42
by
Coldonat »
Thu Feb 17, 2022 3:48 pm
With 'Messenger' and similar, and now a good mobile signal, we rarely use our landline, so are going to terminate our contract with Phonexpat. Just...
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Last post by Blaze
Fri Feb 25, 2022 9:37 am
Bitcoin
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by
L Austin France »
Mon Feb 21, 2022 12:31 pm
Can someone explain in very simple terms what these things are & who benefits from them?
I've just read about a US coal fired power station, due to...
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Last post by niemeyjt
Wed Feb 23, 2022 12:06 pm
Microsoft so-called Help
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by Spardo » Mon Feb 14, 2022 6:05 pm
My problem was obvious, but this is the response that I got from MS.
Original reply first first:
|Monday, February 14, 2022 2:38 PM GMT|
|Thank you...
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Last post by Spardo
Thu Feb 17, 2022 12:17 am
No more Facebook in Europe?
Replies: 15
by
niemeyjt »
Mon Feb 07, 2022 9:26 pm
Meta threatens to SHUT DOWN Facebook and Instagram in Europe if it is unable to process EU data on its US servers - despite raking in $6.8billion...
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Last post by Hotrodder
Thu Feb 10, 2022 5:43 pm
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Wed Feb 09, 2022 1:13 pm
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