{"id":674,"date":"2007-01-18T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjon.s423.sureserver.com\/?p=674"},"modified":"2007-01-18T16:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-18T20:55:00","slug":"french-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"French Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here I am in France at my apartment in Les Gets 74260. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orange.fr\/\">Wanadoo aka Orange<\/a> have been charging me 24.90  Euro a month for a 1MB connection. However, as you can see there is a missing  light on my router modem. Yes that&#8217;s right there is no ADSL on the line. Trying  to contact their service assistance on 3901 sucks big time even for native  French speakers, we are now on our second 72 hour promise of an engineer. I&#8217;ve  now paid Bernard of Kankoo  Informatique in Morzine to try and sort out the Orange guys. However, I&#8217;m  not hopeful ,they seem even worse than NTL and  <a href=\"http:\/\/bt.com\/\">BT.<\/a><em>  <\/em>I wonder how Loic gets on with his ADSL connections. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/images\/netgear503-710414.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/images\/netgear503-798874.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Picture of actual Netgear router lights.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/images\/netgear_screen503-787435.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/images\/netgear_screen503-776791.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The missing Internet (ADSL) light.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>All a bit terrible for an apartment that you only use occasionally. So off to  <strike>The Boomerang<\/strike>  Hotel Stella again to post  this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I am in France at my apartment in Les Gets 74260. Wanadoo aka Orange have been charging me 24.90 Euro a month for a 1MB connection. However, as you can see there is a missing light on my router modem. Yes that&#8217;s right there is no ADSL on the line. Trying to contact their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geoff-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}