Free wifi
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It might improve the signal but I can't see it is going to do much for the bandwidth. Although you can share your connection you still only have your login allocation to play with. On gold sites this can be fairly generous, (I have had over 10MB), on bronze often only 1 / 2 MB. Hardly enough for one let alone share.
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I was rarely impressed with club WiFi and it proved far to hit-&-miss whether it would work or not. My solution turned out to offer far more benefits than just WiFI.
I put in a 300mb router that was powered directly from the 12v circuit so worked whether we were on hookup or not. The router had an RJ11 socket on the back which meant we could plug in a standard landline phone and it would work. The router is on a 3gb data and calls sim card. So we can make and receive calls as well as use the Internet. I put a dual polar 4G aerial on a mast that slides into the awning rail and provides 4 bars when our mobile phones don't show any signal at all. Total cost was around £200 + £7 contract for the sim. Well worth it to have decent Internet, phone connectivity and CCTV camera lookup to your van from your mobile whilst you're out.
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A far better idea, would be for the description of sites to include the mobile phone signal quality. There is only 4 transmission networks, as a lot of networks use the same transmission systems. All too often, you get to a site and find there is no phone signal.
Before someone says "why would you want a phone signal" , well some of us still have to work and keep in contact with family and friends.
It cant be that hard for the "facilities on site" section to have none / Poor or good for the phone signal quality, after all, the site operators know and can provide the information of the network they use to start things rolling.
Any thoughts, or has this already been raised and decided it was not worth it?
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Some sites have, or used to have, an indication of this. I remember one site, no longer in the club's network, that had no signal whatsoever and it was stated in the site details.
Bolton Abbey is a site where there is no mobile reception yet I can’t see mention of it on the website or in the site details leaflet. Perhaps I missed it.
Maybe it's been decided that mobile network coverage changes so quickly that it would be a pain to keep up to date? This is something only the club can answer.
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Bolton Abbey is a site where there is no mobile reception yet I can’t see mention of it on the website or in the site details leaflet. Perhaps I missed it.
I am sure that such info used to be on the site web page but also there used to be more info about was of interest in the area than there is now.
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I was starting to think I’d imagined it being there, Easy.
I wonder if there’s been a deliberate move away from providing the info? I guess we could pester the wardens by ringing in advance and asking about coverage.
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why not check your own mobile provider's coverage page, should give you a pretty good idea.
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Sometimes they are a bit over optimistic though BB. A few years ago we needed to have phone contact on a site. I checked the coverage checker and it showed as OK. However, as the site was reasonably remote I phoned the warden to check. The answer was that on the network in question, yes you could get a signal if you went and stood by the gate.☹️
Shame you can't roam in your own country. 6 weeks in France and we always had at least a phone signal and 3G and more often 4G.
Information re the mobile signal for Bolton Abbey is now hidden away in site overview on the booking page.
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If that is the case I assume you won't renew next year. That is the good thing about CC WiFi, only those that want it pay for it. As to good, that would depend on your definition of good. I certainly find it adequate. Mine has just run out and I will be renewing next time I visit a CAMC site.
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Good for you, but for the most part it’s unsatisfactory. If you’re on a site with a handful of others it’s probably ok, but if it’s busy and the wrong time of day, forget it. That’s not unique to CMC but typical of most wifi networks outside of the home environment. Using data link via your mobile provider is the only reliable way of ensuring useable connectivity. I used to subscribe but not any longer - waste of money.
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It’s probably tied in with the numbers that want access. I stayed on a private site near Pickering, and it was super fast, even for streaming, but there weren’t that many units on site. Bottom line, when a club site ( in my experience) is busy, it isn’t up to the task. We had our daughter stay with us at Moreton in Marsh, in a pod thingy. The price included WiFi access, which wasn’t available throughout the duration of their stay.
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It certainly is tied in with the number of units. On Gold and Silver sites they operate a dynamic bandwidth, so the slice of the total you get varies as more come on line. Although even at Cirencester, a bronze site, with only a slow connection, I only rarely could not get on line even when the site was full at weekends. We had a seasonal so used it extensively. If your daughter couldn't get online at anytime, that tends to suggest a problem. Unfortunately it does occasionally go down and it does seem to take a long time to sort it. I don't think Airangel have a rapid response team.😂
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I am always surprised that some of us find the service to be fine and some do not. When available it has generally worked fine for me. So much so that I can recall the times that it hasn't as they have been the exception. On our preferred pitch area at Meathop Fell Grange Over Sands site it was hopeless and we used our own data sim.
Another site with a pool, would it be Looe, was fine except for one of five days. Strangely during 15 nights at Southport last year the wifi was poor on two nights. No apparent reason with regard to more users etc. Stayed there many times without problems previously
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We are on Sandringham site (bronze the lowest speed there is no sign of BT junction box)and it has mostly been fine for what I use it for,,there is an entry in the comments book to the effect that it has been awful all the time they were here, but not what they were trying to use it for ?
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I was on Sandringham site at the start of May this year and wifi was certainly OK. I will have watched a few 10 minute youtube videos of some that I follow. I was amazed at how fast the wifi was for us at New England Bay a couple of years ago .... also bronze
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When we are at home
the internet at certain times of the day slows down, and as a Virgin engineer advised , all types of internet is subject to capacity limitations affecting the speeds that are available at times and fibre is no different, copper which is still the main source of supply in large areas of the UK is the most susceptible 0
