WiFi waste of money?

Here at the Club we know how important having a decent Wi-Fi signal is, so we’ve invested £500,000 into our network - with a further £500,000 assigned in 2018.

Yet those that complain to the Club about the poor quality of service seem to be told that the wi-fi is supplied by a third party and the Club can do nothing about it. So I am left to believe that £500,000 is the fee the Club pays annually to the third party to provide what wi-fi there is. Quite where the £25 a year, and other onsite fees actually go is anyones guess.

Don't have a problem as its a  facility I don't use. However from posts here you have to wonder about the cost incurred to all and sundry. Its another case of a £1M here, a £1M on rebranding etc. Funds that could have been used to buy  new sites, buy extra land adjacent to existing sites, for the benefit of ALL.

In the past we have paid the £25 annual fee and been satisfied with the speed available. But tomorrow we're going to a site that previously had no WiFi, but now has - to quote -

"Our Wi-Fi hotspot service on this site means internet access is available within a pre-determined, communal area of the site. Please be aware the hotspot speed is currently slow, and we are working with our suppliers to improve this."

I'm disinclined to pay full whack to stand in the rain (or sun) with my Ipad in hand outside the office or information room etc.

It is interesting that we get a lot on information on how much it is costing to improve the service but no information on how many users so that we can put it all into perspective. It would be easy enough to give us information on how many WiFi passes are purchased on a daily/weekly/annual basis. I can't see this information being commercially difficult to give?

David

Quite a bit of the club access is already being controlled by the supplier to improve things for users. If it's getting to a point where this is necessary is it really something that is offering value, the club actually states it's basically for checking e mails etc.

With the amount of  night we normally spend on cc sites each year for us its is good value ,if only the "few?" took notice of what it is set up for and did not try to get it to emulate the type of internet that most have at home ,

We have usable 4G on our smart phones which is already paid for so have never used site WiFi and probably never will as every year 4G cover gets better and better.  Can't see any point in paying again for what we already have, especially as we are not on club sites all the time....

JVB. But they won't, they'll expect value for money from their payment not  controlled access. It's not a good system. I must admit when it was first offered it seemed like a good idea but there has been a huge improvement in access for all that this system seems antiquated now.

Works for me Brue, convenient and supplies my needs at a reasonable price. This trip however I am using 7 sites of which only 2 are CC. Only using wifi on one of those sites. Plenty of CC sites later. It makes no sense for us to have long term contracts. However as PAYG sim only prices fall these become a good option.

I think some of the problem JVB is that the system often seems to leave you logged on, rather than time you out. So when everyone comes back for the day although they might only log on to check emails, the link is still active. If they later plug their phone in to charge it will likely trigger an automatic cloud back up, if not disabled. It would not take many of those to severely restrict bandwidth. I always make sure the backup facility is disabled, I wonder how many do?