Club site with free useable wifi
We've stopped for two nights at a club site on our way home from France. To our surprise, the wifi is free and the signal strength allows streaming of news items. No registration, no adverts. The site is, however St Neots: it's a C&CC site. Must be a new competitive policy. 👍
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Chas, we've used the free wifi at two of their clubs recently....Salisbury ,where it worked well, and more recently Oxford, where it worked really well over 3/4 of the site but we were pitched away from the reception area and it was (let's be generous) patchy.....4g no problem though..
we have excellent free wifi on site now but not with either club...my pal was able to stream the football earlier without issue..
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I can beat that😀. I’ve used it on 4 sites and it ranged from poor to very good. As ever, its performance suffered in bad weather and in the evenings when usage was probably heaviest. However, being free, I doubt anyone feels the need to complain or start forum threads about it😄
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Hi BB, we haven't read our C&CC newsletters recently so weren't aware of the introduction of free wifi. As I've said in the past, free wifi is like free toilet paper: it's seldom very good but you can't complain because it's free! In this case it's good quality!
The C&CC must have decided that the cost and hastle of running a wifi system wasn't sensible, and have rolled the wifi fees into the site running costs. Hope C&MC follows their example.
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I don't use as many C&CC sites as I do CMC sited but the ones I have used the WiFi has always been a bit more reliable that on CMC sites. When they stopped charging I received a voucher for the value of the remaining time I had left on my annual subscription which I thought was a nice gesture.
The problem with the CMC offer is that we have very little information on how much it is used and the investment that might have seemed sensible a few years ago I suspect is now being questioned as more and more people rely on 4G coverage. The cost of the annual CMC WiFi is reasonable value for someone who uses a lot of Club sites the short term costs are far too expensive.
David
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I put a link on a previous thread to the C&CC WiFi info area where they state that it's variable with hot spot usage etc. But there's none of the fiddly gold/bronze CAMC set up it just basically implies user beware. (It was good for us at Ravenglass recently.)
Edit. Sorry our posts crossed Chasncath.
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So C&CC provide a reasonable wifi for free whilst CAMC provide a dubious one for which there is a charge. Hmmm.
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indeed, that's why CCC sites are fuller than CAMC.
Of there is a charge, it's just in built in to the fees? Is that what you want for the CAMC?
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On every CAMC site we have used recently the WiFi has been fine, with only a few blips. In fact there seems to have been a notable improvement over the last couple of years. Even at home we get the odd problems. Normally when they are messing about in the box at the end of the street, connecting someone else.😂 I am totally happy with the charge.
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Well if they were watching The Killers at Glastonbury, I'd have pulled up a chair with a couple ofrom bottles of beer in the cooler and watched with them!
Back to wifi - we used it at two C&CC sites recently, though only for browsing and checking emails - better things to do than streaming! At Wolverley it was good but at Kingsbury Water Park it was virtually unusable. On CAMC sites I use it for CT with no problem but rely on 4G for anything else.
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I don't regard either of the club site wifi supplies as secure and I gave up the CAMC wifi a long time ago. I'd only use it for browsing etc never streaming which CAMC asks people not to do. There's too much sharing and when everyone wants to use it the buffering begins.
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are C&CC sites more expensive than CC, then....?
i assume they must be if the wifi cost has to be added on (to make it appear 'free')
i asked because, having used a few lately, I didn't get that impression.
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Of the nine cc sites we have used this time away only two have been a problem when trying to use the on site t internet
Clumber park was very sloooow but better than mobile phone signal which was as is well known Zero
Thirst racecoursewhich does not have it
I will say that at weekend's when some sites that attract many families,it can also be very slow
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Depends on what the term "Useable" covers.
For me Netflix, if it cant stream I dont want it.
Here at Little Winnick, no signal on our phones 😢, so paid £25 for a months worth of wifi for 2 devices.
IT STREAMS 😁
A little loss of signal occasionally, but that's Cornwall, none the less watched a movie last night and video called my daughter today. Cost fifty quid, not the use of video call, but fleeced again by my youngest! 🤑🤯🤪
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"…but that's Cornwall…"
Reckon you’ve chosen a blackspot😄
Most of Cornwall manages 4G these days and we've even got lekky now👍🏻😝
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Lekky? oh no you dont 🤣🤣🤣
Fridge has started flashing, checked the voltage, 189 volts! Now on gas.
Can you pick up the pace on the wheel please, have a box of Magnums in the freezer.
That's Cornwall, 🥴
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👌🤪🤦♂️
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Please spell it correctly - drekkly👍🏻
Watch out for they Piskies up to their mischief. That’ll be wot’s causing the problems.
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Tis all these visitors stretching our resources. Just get Trevithick’s old steam engine connected up and your problems will be solved. 😃
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Have a Mamod back home in the conservatory, should have brought it with me, seen as you lot have broken all yours!
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On a serious note, it is unexpectedly busy even a CMC rally in the next door field.
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