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Otherwise, most hotels offer Wifi, often at no additional charge, but at some additional bother:

—You must request a unique User ID and Password from the hotel. Neither will be easily memorable. You may need to obtain a new User ID and Password for every day of your stay.

—You must open your web browser to login.

—The login functionality may be opaque or confusing, or not work as described.

—Login may have a time limit (1 hour, 12 hours, 24 hours). It may actually work for that long, or it may not.

—You may connect easily to the hotel's service, but the service may not connect easily to the Internet.

—The service may disconnect unexpectedly and not be readily remediable.

How this can be so difficult, I do not know, but in France it can be. The good news is that most of the time it can be made to work reasonably well.

At transport termini (train stations, airports, etc.) you must register with an Internet service provider and pay a fee for your connection.

The three main Internet service providers in France (including wireless/Wifi) are:

Bouygues Télécom

Orange
The online service of France Telecomm.

SFR

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