Wifi Price rise
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So, why is wifi different to electric power, water, waste disposal, showers, all services provided ‘free’ on CAMC sites?
A number of possible reasons. Most outfits on site have at least one member who will make use of toilet facilities. Nearly all will use electric, waste and water services. Many will choose not to use site wifi but might if included in fee. I find the wifi generally good but would it be if all the site were using it?
Also no idea what CC's contract structure with air angel might be .... is it still air angel?
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The cost of building the infrastructure to provide WiFi on a Club site is a great deal more than the rather simpler systems used in pubs and coffee shops. You are also going to be in such premises for a relatively short period of time so bandwidth might not be such an issue as on a Club site with potentially a 100 users being online at the same time. I am not sure you should equate an understanding of the whys and wherefores of the Club system as being propaganda.
As to sites abroads, yes I have had been on a few sites with free WiFi but I have also had many with eye wateringly high charges for internet use and often with systems that are less useful than what the Club provides.
David
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Like many on here we have a good data allowance from BT on our mobiles and a mifi with 25GB data from Vodafone however it is only any good if you get a decent signal and on many sites you do not.
I always thought the £25 a year fee was reasonable if you used club sites often, however what let it down was the abysmal speeds at most sites. In York Rowntree site which is located right in the city centre the speed was non existent, so the club should really be looking at alternatives to a fixed line. But in Castleton in th middle of nowhere the speed was great and could not complain as there is hardly a phone signal.
So I think horses for courses/mix and match if there is a good 3/4G signal use teh phone or mifi if no signal use WiFi if the speed is good.
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I was just expressing a personal opinion regarding wifi.
I agree there are other thing on site (that i don't use) but would not want to see them go.
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I don’t mind paying if the service is there. I bought an annual pass in mid May last year at the start of a 6 week trip away thinking it would be more reliable than my phone. Logged into site WiFi last Tuesday to find I’d got 122 hours left - great that will do for most of this 7 week trip. On Saturday I noticed a flag saying I’d got 104 hours left - wondered if that was right as only used iPad twice a day for maximum of half hour each time. Have made a note of usage since then. Logged in just now to see time left was down to 94 hours 34 minutes despite total usage since Saturday only 3 hours 45 minutes! How does that work? Anyone else encountered a similar problem? Who and how do I get that time back?
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Contact Air Angel and see what they say.
It's the mobile network for me every time.
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I’ll try them - they were worse than useless when I had a log on problem last year though!
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I noticed mine was showing the number of hours, although it was in the thousands as I have 6 months left. At one time it showed the number of days, which was a more sensible way of showing how long before you had to pay again. As ET says, the pass last 12 months, even if you only use it for the odd day.
Up to about 5 years ago, you did buy a number of hours. This was not a good system, as if you had problems logging out you lost time, even though you were not using the system.
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The Camping and Caravan Club, like most, CL, CS, and private sites no longer charge for their WiFi service, it's time for the CMC to follow suit.
I suppose a simpler statement would be that the CMC are the only site providers to still be charging a separate fee for their WiFi service.
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“…a simpler statement would be that the CMC are the only site providers to still be charging a separate fee for their WiFi service.”
Not so. Many site operators charge separately and some charge much more than CAMC.
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A lot of "complaints" about low speeds seems to depend on usage on the said site and as stated by the club, the on site wifi is not in place to be used as one gets at home,with only a couple of users ,the majority of sites (not just cc) still do not have high speed internet connections,for us and many others who use club sites often the annual "fee" to use what is available is very good value,
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Geez JV-£1.50😱, are you sure it’s actual coffee?🤔. Most good coffee I’ve found is around £4/5 a shot.
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Grantown on Spey is one site that springs to mind but it’s ‘free’ on the premium pitches. Wood Farm is another.
Perhaps, like me, you never pay, Brue, and then it doesn’t stick in the mind. 😀
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Last week we were on the C&CC site at Bala. Yes, the WiFi was free - but it was appallingly slow. It's a small (45 pitches) site and was almost empty. No Hotspots as far as I know. We got less than 1 mbps, But there was good 4g (EE) so were happy to use our phones.
Not as fast as at home!
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It’s what suits JV, I relish a good coffee & would pay more for a salted caramel machiato. . .& I have too😊. For £1.50 what you bought would not be anything but chicory I reckon, but if you’re not a coffee person-so be it. . .Tis life👍🏻
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Yes Steve, we've only been there once and queuing to use the phone box when needing frequent contact at home was a big drawback. Also the drop in the CC wifi signal when everyone came back to the site in the evenings.
We've stayed in places where's there's no signal for anything, no wifi, phones, TV and radio. Sometimes a hotspot might be available as in the Cairngorms but not on the end of the Mull of Kyntyre!
We live in the SW, an area where wifi is slow with no sign of improvements and also phone signals can vary. Due to this we've opted for our own wi-fi rather than share and pay with the club provision.
If some are happy with what's provided and are prepared to pay then at least it's available if needed but it's not for us any more.
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you can get a signal at Carburton Lodge entrance while having their bacon butties