You can top-up data on an Orange contract SIM if you’ve blown your monthly data limit via their website or the Orange et Moi app.
You should still be able to make/receive regular cellular calls unless your contract is “limited / bloqué”.
Apparently it is, but given that I haven’t made any calls in the last month I don’t see how I could possibly exceed my allowance! I’ve never quite understood the implication of bloqué outside the obvious of not allowing me to make calls outside the allowance - is that right?
EDIT: And I don’t use it for data at all 
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Bloqué = once you’ve used up your monthly allowance, you’re done until your monthly payment goes through or you top up.
Non bloqué = once you go over your allowance, they just bill you extra on the next bill. I think they charge you a little more per Mo/Go on the “extra” data.
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That’s what I thought! I’ve not used any data and it’s the outgoing calls/texts that have been stopped.
I’m fed up! I’ve decided to change supplier, even if I move again in a few months.
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Have you checked WiFi preferences in the settings menu, automatic reconnect to home network?
Depending on your contract, you might get a fairly low data allowance (2Gb), easy to go over.
Just a thought…
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Yes - automatic connect to home wifi! I don’t use my data allowance at all and also, it shouldn’t affect my calls/texts…
Background App Refresh, automatic App updates and iPhoto syncing all need to be set to WiFi only to avoid your mobile data being gobbled up.
Mine are.
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OK you’re all right, after the fever only lasting 3 days and then just tired but just about able to work OK I’ve now got a terrible cough and feel awful. Another weekend written off!!! I really hope I’m better come Monday as can’t really afford another day off!
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Fingers crossed for you @toryroo
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Take care of yourself @toryroo . Hope you get over this more quickly than you fear!
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Just over two weeks here and its easing off except in the evenings.
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More than 3 weeks for me. I cough less frequently and I feel better in myself so I think it’s gradually letting go. Be careful Tory. Not treating flu and its aftermath with respect is the dangerous area of long-term chronic conditions like ME.
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What a start to the week!
Monday morning our internet went down about 10am, but wasn’t too worried as it’s normally restored within an hour or two. Lunchtime get an Orange SMS to say it’ll be sorted by the 19th of Feb! Someone laying new drains in the next village had been a tad careless.
Meanwhile, my wife tries to take something out of a fridge door tray, it breaks and falls on top of the tray below: both then fall onto quarry tiles: trays and contents shatter, leaving an unusual, but very messy mixture of pomegranate molasses, sun-dried tomatoes in olive oil, mustard, maple syrup, wine, plastic and glass to mop up. Were it not for the last two ingredients we might have had the basis for an award winning vinaigrette. Of course, can’t order new door trays 'cos the internet is down.
While we’re cleaning up the mess, I notice a new dirty water stain in the corner of the kitchen ceiling; go up to the cave on the top floor at the back of the house and discover the ballon d’eau chaude has been leaking, probably for some time and there are about fifty large to medium sized painting sat in a couple of cms of rusty water. Fortunately it’s oil paint so nothing ruined (apart from the floor).
The recovery: we now have a temporary Orange wifi box which is quite fast, a new ballon, fridge door bits are en route and tomorrow I rip up the cave floor to help it dry out. But, bloody hell, it’s only Wednesday!
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I can empathise!
My consolation is to note that disasters come in threes. Once you’ve counted three, they’re over. (Until the next triple.)
I’d say you’ve had your three - internet; fridge; water tank. Voilà, c’est fini!
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As mentioned elsewhere, it was a quick dash to Belgium yesterday just in time to be with father-in-law as he shuffled off this mortal coil. On the upside, we had recently fitted cameras for him so we had spotted that all was not well and he at least got to go with dignity and his family around him.
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Sorry to hear the news John, as you said it helped having the cameras just as it did for my late Mum.
Condolences.
Very sorry about that John but it sounds like things worked out as well as they possibly could for all of you. Dignity is something that tends to go by the wayside in some end-of-life situations (I’m thinking of my mother for example) so you did something very good for your father-in-law. I’m impressed.
Don’t know what’s made me look at this thread today, as I need to keep away from bad news (self-preservation).
It’s now clear that I’ve missed reading about the sad/difficult times so many of you have been having.
Sending belated comforting thoughts over the internet, to one and all.
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