WiFi waste of money?

Posted on 29/04/2018 12:39 by brue

Just dug a bit deeper, 31 Wi-Fi hotspot sites. With our own means of getting a good signal nearly everywhere are these hotspots really needed or is it provided because some have bought the package?

Posted on 29/04/2018 12:05 by NevChap

My suggestion was to make WiFi available in a certain area of a club site rather than the costly £1m investment to push it around the whole site. Why should we subsidise your use of the Internet ET?

Posted on 26/12/2019 13:16 by MJCBJC

Deffo needed at Clumber Park...Phone signal is Pants.

Posted on 27/04/2018 10:51 by NevChap

OK tin hat firmly in place. Here goes. I know that members have asked repeatedly about upgrading or installing WiFi on club sites and I read that large sums of our money are used to try to give decent coverage across as many sites as possible. However, are we not just throwing good money away with the pace of technology outstripping our efforts to catch up. When I go on a club site I no longer rely on the club WiFi but use my iPhone (other phones are available) to access the Internet and even piggy back a laptop or tablet, increasingly via 4g and soon to be 5g. This method is usually superior to the WiFi available on site. Now I know that at the moment not everyone has that facility but increasingly more and more people are.  In which case why keep trying to provide WiFi on a catch up basis costing a great deal of money. For what it's worth I would want to provide a decent WiFi signal close to reception that we could access maybe from a suitable 'shed' so that people could check emails and surf the 'net. This could be provided much more cheaply than a system which tries to cover the complete site: after all there has to be a decent connection for the site office to be able to run smoothly.

OK we may 'want' to sit in our caravan or motorhome and access the Internet but is it really cost effective for the club to spend huge sums providing this when better systems can be employed by individuals?

Just a thought, I'll now crawl into the bunker!

Posted on 29/12/2019 15:13 by Amesford

The problem is not so much the wifi its the way the broadband arrives at the site as most are normally in rural areas and the signal arrives via the old telephone wires were as in urban areas we have fibre optic cables, much more efficient 

Posted on 29/12/2019 17:57 by SteveL

Not just rural. York Rowntree Park is only shown as bronze (1-8MB over for the whole site). I thought it seemed unlikely but the BT speed checker shows a download speed of 3 - 7 MB with a guarantee of 1MB. I  assume the nearest fibre cabinet must be a fair distance away.