Arthur Brown Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Hi Does anyone have any experience in relation to wifi via BT fon or openzone abroad, particularly in France and Spain. The tin says it is available in thousands of sites 'world wide' De man in the call centre confirms this but I am a realist. Has anyone done it? Arthur Brown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly58 Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Your best bet is to park at MacDonalds or ask at local Office De Tourism although I have the poi's on my tomtom for bt phon and openworld you would have to park outside the property to connect good in theory but not in practice , we just pull into McDees park opposite the building switch on laptop and log in and away you go no need to enter the building. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Brown Posted September 17, 2011 Author Share Posted September 17, 2011 Thanks for that Kelly Art Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terryW Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 Went across France and stayed in Spain this year and never found a single location but to be fair I only tried it on overnight stops at Aires in small French towns. I suspect the situation is different in city centres but me and the van don't ( intentionally ) go into City centres. Certainly nothing near KIKO Park, Oliva either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homenaway Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 Hi, We found only one active FON hotspot on our tour of France Spain and Portugal this year. That was at the aire at Loches and using a long range antenna. There are loads of places especially in Portugal. I have downloaded POI's to Autoroute but once you zoom in they are mostly near larger towns. We didn't go out of our way to find them but found many campsites had free wifi anyway. FON claim that in France SFR/Neuf hotspots are in the scheme but when we found those we couldn't log in. So not as good as they claim IMHO. Also you must leave your Fonero router on at home while you're away otherwise they suspend your membership after 30 days Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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