Air angel

Yes even on gold sites the best I have measured is 1MB download and 0.5 up, even in the early hours when few will be using it. I assume it is deliberately restricted per user, to try and stop members using it for what is not intended. 1 MB down and 0.5 up for instance, would not really be enough for a stable video call, so having tried it once folk won't try again.

I think that is the main problem, having to share a self limiting bandwidth, more users, less bandwidth for individuals. I think the club had good intentions setting up wi-fi but technology has moved on. There are also still some areas in the UK where transmissions are generally poor and you can't expect much at all from any type of service.

It’s due to the problems and idiosyncrasies of the club’s Wi-fi that I object every time someone says it should be free to the end user. We all know that it can’t be free as such because it’s use and installation carries costs. As long as it is a second rate system I have no desire to see those costs embedded in site fees leaving us with no choice whether to pay or not. If it ever becomes efficient and reliable, I’ll consider changing my views. 

Probably right Brue. As they say you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear! Whilst the Club come in for a lot of stick about their WiFi provision, probably because they charge for it, the real problem is lack of investment in national infrastructure. BT Openreach reliance on fibre to cabinet was really only a stop gap. In hindsight they should have installed fibre and got rid of copper. I am on FTTC and get about 38mbps which is generally fine for me. My son has FTTP, so a direct fibre cable to his house and gets about 80/100 mbps. Contrast that with the new non BT system currently being installed in MK which will give us up to 1000 mbps. Now if the Club had that sort of service coming into their sites there would be enough bandwidth to allow people to stream movies and virtually anything else they wanted to do.

David

There are also still some areas in the UK where transmissions are generally poor and you can't expect much at all from any type of service.

There are of course satellite systems. As long as a tree does not get in the way.😂 They are however, very expensive and not something I would consider.

Last time I checked at home it was around 4mb and my daughter who lived half a mile away got 8mb. cable stops a mile from me and half a mile from daughters then house.

If your travelling around and need to know how good or bad signals are in a particular area you can run a check through Ofcom. 

Ofcom checker LINK

Warning if you're in a slow area like me this may take some time....

I think with FTTC (infinity) the desired aim is to get the cabinet within 200 metres. Unfortunately they are failing in this extensively.

For us at about 250 metres we are getting 69 MB download and. 19 MB upload. Before I upgraded we had 15 / 17MB down and 1.5 MB up. So a significant improvement.

Actually I was happy with the old download speed. It was the upload that I wanted to improve.

I have no problem watching online video etc even if both are using it and so it is fine for us. The only website that downloads slowly we all know.