WiFi queries

geoffo replied on 27/10/2022 17:10

Posted on 27/10/2022 17:10

If I purchase a 7 day package, could I, for example, use 1day for 7 weeks. Similarly, does a 1year package give 365 individual days?

I believe a 1 day pack is 24hours from 1st logon. Therefore, if I logon at 1800hrs my period would expire at 1800 the next day although I might have only been on line for 2 hours. Is this correct?

I also think that, when you are paying over £30/night (for 2 adults) as club members, that WiFi, at least a hotspot, should be included! Many ‘commercial’ site aren’t as expensive and provide free WiFi.

Cornersteady replied on 27/10/2022 17:28

Posted on 27/10/2022 17:28

I think your packages are only valid for that set time, a one day package lasts 24 hours as you say not 24 individual hours, a seven day package will be valid for seven consecutive days and a one year package will run out after 365 consecutive days and I don't know what happens in a leap year. 

This is all from memory so I may be wrong as I've haven't bought one for a good few years and just use my phone which is just as good. 

As always if you're after good and free (and of course it never is) wifi then a club site is not the place to go. Not all club sites have wifi btw.

Post edit, you don't need to buy a package if all you want to do is use the site wifi for using the club's website for booking and CT, it's only when you want to use another external website.

Book your next trip easily with free access to our website once you connect to Wi-Fi on site

Tinwheeler replied on 27/10/2022 17:32

Posted on 27/10/2022 17:32

A 7 day package will last 7 consecutive days / 1week. A year's fee will buy you use for one calendar year and a day will give you 24 hours. They are all time limited rather than usage limited.

Be aware before parting with your hard earned that there are numerous threads on this forum about the inadequacies of site wifi. (I'm being polite here.)  Many of us find tethering to our phones, or similar arrangements, give far superior results using the mobile networks.

Edit: Cross posted with Corners.

 

geoffo replied on 28/10/2022 17:36

Posted on 28/10/2022 17:36

Thanks for your answers. The WiFi is as I suspected not as I’d hoped! 

TimboC replied on 28/10/2022 17:46

Posted on 28/10/2022 17:46

Tether to your mobile phone Geoffo, mobile coverage allowing. You'll save yourself a world of grief!

Navigateur replied on 28/10/2022 20:40

Posted on 28/10/2022 20:40

How ironic to state:-

Book your next trip easily with free access to our website once you connect to Wi-Fi on site

Perhaps true before the screwing  of the booking process, but not anymore.

SteveL replied on 28/10/2022 20:45

Posted on 28/10/2022 20:40 by Navigateur

How ironic to state:-

Book your next trip easily with free access to our website once you connect to Wi-Fi on site

Perhaps true before the screwing  of the booking process, but not anymore.

Posted on 28/10/2022 20:45

Agree, certainly while we were away, up to the middle of October, the free side of the  WiFi just crashed or locked up when you tried to use the new booking site.

JVB66 replied on 28/10/2022 22:01

Posted on 28/10/2022 20:45 by SteveL

Agree, certainly while we were away, up to the middle of October, the free side of the  WiFi just crashed or locked up when you tried to use the new booking site.

Posted on 28/10/2022 22:01

As it did at FM after 12 ?sept

richardandros replied on 29/10/2022 06:41

Posted on 29/10/2022 06:41

I wouldn't even contemplate wasting your money on the site Wifi, geoffo. Even if it works, the bandwidth just isn't enough to support all those attempting to use it. Tethering to your phone is OK but you are reliant on the phone's aerial which might not be too effective if the signal isn't as good as it might be. I posted on here recently about my set up - TP Link router, Poynting aerial on a 10' mast which gives me download speeds of about 50 Mbps and faster in some areas. Ok - so there's the capital outlay but running costs are about £50 per year given that we are away for one or two weeks every month.  Cheap internet in my opinion (and it works!).

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