Posted on 25/05/2021 17:51
Why do we have 1 set of prices for daily, weekly, yearly use but 3 different speed bands, from 100mbs down to 1, gold silver and bronze.
the bronze daily rate should be minimal
just back from rowntree park which is bronze, could not even log on the speed was so low
Posted on 07/06/2021 18:17 by young thomasI thought the situation with the 'other club' was that the system had alrady been fully paid for by members' wifi payments over the years and, as it owed them nothing, it was given back, free, to those members.
i guess with CC, their contract with Air Angel (or whoever) is just an ongoing service rental and will never be paid for.
Posted on 07/06/2021 18:17 by young thomasI thought the situation with the 'other club' was that the system had alrady been fully paid for by members' wifi payments over the years and, as it owed them nothing, it was given back, free, to those members.
i guess with CC, their contract with Air Angel (or whoever) is just an ongoing service rental and will never be paid for.
Posted on 07/06/2021 21:21
If that is the situation one would imagine the C&CC don't intend to upgrade the system as that could be costly and require a resumption of payment? There must also be an element of them absorbing some of the costs as their supplier won't be giving it to them for free?
The CMC have always said that they invested probably hundreds of thousands of pounds setting their WiFi system. I don't think Air Angel was their original supplier. But as I mentioned earlier we have no idea of how much take up there is of CMC WiFi so whether they are anywhere near breaking even is difficult to establish. They have also set their hearts on providing high speed fibre broadband to at least some sites and I doubt that will be cheap so I can see the charging model continuing for some years yet? For many of us it's probably a bit academic as we use our mobile data so Club WiFi only becomes an issue on those rare occasions we find ourselves in a data black hole!
David
Posted on 25/05/2021 17:51 by longtermpullerWhy do we have 1 set of prices for daily, weekly, yearly use but 3 different speed bands, from 100mbs down to 1, gold silver and bronze.
the bronze daily rate should be minimal
just back from rowntree park which is bronze, could not even log on the speed was so low
Posted on 08/06/2021 23:23 byI have generally been happy with paid for CMC not found free CCC to be good.
Posted on 09/06/2021 07:14
In the past I have also been generally happy. However, when we resumed touring again after the first lockdown, I thought the very full sites off peak and the different demographic using them would cause the system to struggle. As my annual subscription had expired, I decided to check my assumption before renewing. Unfortunately my presumption was valid, it was often a real struggle even getting connected to the free CC web site. This has proved the case on multiple sites, both last year and since resuming travels this. Although we have not stopped on one of the fibre upgraded ones to date. As a result I have not renewed my subscription and used 4G instead. Conversely we have used 3 C&CC sites and the Wi-fi has been reasonable on two and good on one. Although admittedly all were small sites, however reasonably full.
Posted on 05/06/2021 17:14 by JVB66Then as I said £6000per property, in one lane , and not far from the main road so how much to run the supply to a site any distance from the nearest fibre supply, even at home we are nearer to a BT cabinet than the houses in Norfolk are and we have not got fibre broadband,its not the connection that is expensive it's the cable run.that most of the cost is
Posted on 09/06/2021 08:00
Our parish council contacted BT years ago requesting a fibre link to our Village(35 dwellings) they took 2yrs but we now have it. The PC showed BT the majority of villagers would sign up with them. I can’t see how it’s £6k, I left BT when the contract was up👍🏻
Posted on 09/06/2021 08:00 by Rocky 2 bucketsOur parish council contacted BT years ago requesting a fibre link to our Village(35 dwellings) they took 2yrs but we now have it. The PC showed BT the majority of villagers would sign up with them. I can’t see how it’s £6k, I left BT when the contract was up👍🏻
Posted on 09/06/2021 07:14 by SteveLIn the past I have also been generally happy. However, when we resumed touring again after the first lockdown, I thought the very full sites off peak and the different demographic using them would cause the system to struggle. As my annual subscription had expired, I decided to check my assumption before renewing. Unfortunately my presumption was valid, it was often a real struggle even getting connected to the free CC web site. This has proved the case on multiple sites, both last year and since resuming travels this. Although we have not stopped on one of the fibre upgraded ones to date. As a result I have not renewed my subscription and used 4G instead. Conversely we have used 3 C&CC sites and the Wi-fi has been reasonable on two and good on one. Although admittedly all were small sites, however reasonably full.
Posted on 09/06/2021 08:39
I would suspect that might be the case at present but I have not toured since 2020 spring trip was cancelled. I considered that if CMC made its wifi free to use it would would be less attractive to me.
Only uses CCC wifi since it became free and found it poor and generally used 4G.
Posted on 10/06/2021 08:02
Only uses CCC wifi since it became free and found it poor and generally used 4G
I mainly use 4 G but will resort to free WiFi if it is any good. I find on the C&CC sites it all depends on how many are using it. Get on early in the morning or late evening and it is perfectly ok.
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