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Clumber Park is one CC site which doesn't have WiFi coverage.  On most sites we've been on it's been reasonable, although definitely not fast!  But sufficient for me to check emails and look things up on the net.

You mean that Clumber Park's coverage is not good? It does have Wifi. I was there last year and there was a sign saying no Wifi but in fact mine worked reasonably OK. It depended where you were on the site (according to the wardens). I would have expected them to have resolved that by now and, if not, it's a bad show. 

On the whole the Wifi on CC sites is not great and I have been among those complaining bitterly about it in the past. But it has definitely improved and on many sites that I stayed at last year I was able to get a decent connection and log in to my office machine and do a bit of work. It is not all bad as the posts on here imply.

Reference JVB66's point: streaming is not somehow prevented as one might infer from his post. It is just that the speed often precludes it and where it doesn't the CC encourage a kind of odd ethical approach where one is not supposed to stream and slow things down for others. This will have to change if the CC is to remain in the 21st century. There seems to be some kind of mythical thinking that anything better is not possible.

There is nothing mythical about it, there are limits to what is possible down a length of copper cable, even with fibre in close proximity. You only have to ask some of those who live in rural locations and are lucky to get a viable signal. Yes there are ways around these problems, but just how much are you prepared to pay for your wifi. Folk complain enough about the reasonable £25 a year.

I think the post you are refering to is the one I have copied below.

Hi

Clumber is a huge challenge for us as the site is so far from the exchange. We did double the lines into the site last year but that gets us from 1mb to 2 for the entire site which will work for some but generally not the entire site, especially
when busy or when anybody tries to do anything data heavy

We are exploring options for Clumber. Satellite is a possibility but it is extremely expensive and the models offered to us currently arent very customer friendly - that a aside Satellite also offers a different kind of experience, so its
good for streaming but terrible for anything instant like email so we would need to manage this experience.

Our latest thinking is a centralised covered wifi zone so that the little we have can be maximised in a small space with fewer users, but our longer term strategic plan lies with working with the National Trust who own the estate and also
have the same issues. We are in talks with them to see if we can fund a longer term solution to meet both our needs, but that is not something that will happen overnight.

We are working on how we present our wifi information per site on the website and should have something more visible for members from around April time - this will involve grading the site wifi and letting members know what they can expect to be able to
do on each site as they are all different depending on what bandwidth is available, amongst other factors!

We will keep you posted re a centralised zone vs the longer term plan

Thanks for your patience and sorry for any inconvenience 

Natasha

Thanks for the update Natasha.