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Barney
Just thought I would share my learnings from buying an Orange Holiday SIM with 50Gb Data (upped to 100Gb with their current offer).
I have a Spitz AX3000 5G router and was planning to use the SIM in it for a few weeks travelling in France.
I plugged in the SIM straight off the ferry and for 24hrs everything worked superbly - superb speed - see pic.
I powered down the router overnight and the next day it refused to connect.
9 days of pointless back and forth emails to Orange later they finally admit that the "SIM cannot be used in a router"
>> "At Orange, we have SIM cards for routers but this one that are in your possession does not work in these devices."
Their website is obviously pretty deceiving then.. https://travel.orange.com/en/buy-a-sim/offers/europe/orhldeur50gb
This SIM includes :
Should read "EXCEPT ROUTERS" ..
Anyway Plan B was to leave the SIM in an old iPhone tethered into the USB sharing the Phone Hotspot.
This works but this doesn't get the same antenna power/speed of connection.
Just sharing in case anyone else has learned the same, managed to get Orange to unblock it or found alternative solutions.
Cheers
Barney
2019 T6 California Ocean
![Orange FR.png Orange FR.png](https://vwcaliforniaclub.com/data/attachments/125/125328-bba033a3aa68a82daa25581b9c42a91a.jpg)
I have a Spitz AX3000 5G router and was planning to use the SIM in it for a few weeks travelling in France.
I plugged in the SIM straight off the ferry and for 24hrs everything worked superbly - superb speed - see pic.
I powered down the router overnight and the next day it refused to connect.
9 days of pointless back and forth emails to Orange later they finally admit that the "SIM cannot be used in a router"
>> "At Orange, we have SIM cards for routers but this one that are in your possession does not work in these devices."
Their website is obviously pretty deceiving then.. https://travel.orange.com/en/buy-a-sim/offers/europe/orhldeur50gb
This SIM includes :
- 50GB in Europe in 5G/LTE
- 120 minutes of calls from Europe to worldwide
- Unlimited calls and texts in Europe
- 1000 SMS from Europe to worldwide
- Data tethering allowed and no usage limitation (videos, apps…)
- Gigas and minutes valid 28 days from the activation of the tariff
- Usable on any device (phones, tablets, hotspots…)
- Top up compatible and available with this card
Should read "EXCEPT ROUTERS" ..
Anyway Plan B was to leave the SIM in an old iPhone tethered into the USB sharing the Phone Hotspot.
This works but this doesn't get the same antenna power/speed of connection.
Just sharing in case anyone else has learned the same, managed to get Orange to unblock it or found alternative solutions.
Cheers
Barney
2019 T6 California Ocean
![Orange FR.png Orange FR.png](https://vwcaliforniaclub.com/data/attachments/125/125328-bba033a3aa68a82daa25581b9c42a91a.jpg)