data in France | orange's "Internet Max" (500MB for €9) works also on PCs

inquisitor · *Last edited by inquisitor; 09-09-2008 at 20:59..*

Hello world,

Having returned from France today, where I used an orange prepaid SIM ("mobicarte"), I wanted to share my experience with you:

Allthough the t&c's of orange state, that the "Internet Max" option (500MB of data for € 9, limited to 30 days) is valid for handset use only, you can use those 500MB from a computer, too. Even EDGE and HSDPA are enabled.

However some ports seem to be blocked.

Anyway the following protocols/ports are definitely opened:
HTTP (port 80 and 8080)
HTTPS (port 443)
FTP (port 21)
SMTP (port 25)
POP3 (port 110)
ICQ (port ?)

So with virtually € 0,018/MB "Internet Max" is a really attractive tariff to get mobile internet during your stay in France.

orange mobicartes are sold at ebay.fr for less than € 10 and credit can be purchased just everywhere throughout the country.

regards,

Inquisitor

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inquisitor (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Professionist Posts: 1,399 Join Date: 15 Nov 2006 Country:	data in France \| orange's "Internet Max" (500MB for €9) works also on PCs - 08-09-2008, 22:56 Hello world, Having returned from France today, where I used an orange prepaid SIM ("mobicarte"), I wanted to share my experience with you: Allthough the t&c's of orange state, that the "Internet Max" option (500MB of data for € 9, limited to 30 days) is valid for handset use only, you can use those 500MB from a computer, too. Even EDGE and HSDPA are enabled. However some ports seem to be blocked. Anyway the following protocols/ports are definitely opened: HTTP (port 80 and 8080) HTTPS (port 443) FTP (port 21) SMTP (port 25) POP3 (port 110) ICQ (port ?) So with virtually € 0,018/MB "Internet Max" is a really attractive tariff to get mobile internet during your stay in France. orange mobicartes are sold at ebay.fr for less than € 10 and credit can be purchased just everywhere throughout the country. regards, Inquisitor terminals: Samsung: Galaxy S5 DuoS (G900FD); BLU: Win HD LTE; Nokia: 1200; Asus: Fonepad 7 ME372CG; Huawei data: E3372, Vodafone R201, K3765, E1762; postpaid: O2 on Business XL; prepaid: DE: Aldi Talk, Lidl; UK: 3; BG: MTel, vivacom; RU: MTS; RS: MTS; UAE: du Tourist SIM; INT'L: toggle mobile VoIP: sipgate.de (German DID); sipgate.co.uk (British DID); ukddi.com (British DID); sipcall.ch (Swiss DID); megafon.bg (Bulgarian DID); InterVoip.com Last edited by inquisitor; 09-09-2008 at 20:59..