Air angel

I bought a smart TV and paid for wireless air angel for 1 year. Two weeks now into the holiday and still no TV. I just wanted to use our Netflix account  I just want my money back now. 

Whoops! Always check the small print.

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Of course if he /she is staying at one of the upgraded sites they would have reason to feel aggrieved. As they sort of imply you can stream.

You couldn't make it up, could you?

Indeed you couldn’t. However, there is no point pointing out the inconsistencies. I did for some on one of the pitch type pages and they are still there several years on, ☹️ despite a nice email saying the issue would be communicated to the appropriate team.

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As a Business, (and the CAMC is a business don't forget) the question of intolerable Wi-Fi  shouldn't arise. A dedicated Line able to supply the demands of  the site capacity should be the norm. Nowadays Fibre-Optic is the way to go for Internet connections. and with speeds in excess of 350 Mb/s download are easily obtainable. It's a matter of Mathmatics to make Wi-Fi available to all on site with acceptable speeds and quality.

Wi-Fi is capable of at least 50 Mb/s  download so do the maths and calculate the required bandwidth needed. Simples.

 As a freebie to Caravan and Camping Club members, no one can complain  at the poor speeds/quality of their on-site Wi-Fi . but as a PAID FOR service by CAMC members, we have cause for complaint  if the service fails to provide adequate bandwidth/quality of service. With the technology available nowadays  it's possible to  provide a Great Wi-Fi experience regardless of location. 

From experience and from reading other's blogs on the topic of site Wi-Fi, it seems most are moving towards their own system for Internet access while on site. This being based on  the generally poor  on-site Wi-Fi service at present. 4G dongles and Mi-Fi units are becoming popular and although expensive to begin with, are a worthwhile investment for long term solutions to poor Wi-Fi. 

So the question is now. Does the CAMC wish to continue to provide on-site Wi-Fi, in which case it needs to move with the times and upgrade, or scrap  the service and let each develop their own solutions to get Internet access while away on Vacation? .

I do not think you are going to get the type of service you outline Busyelf for £30 a year. Folk just wouldn’t want to pay the likely premium involved and would continue, or in some cases start to use alternative sources. One possibility would be a two, or even 3 tier service, where you  pay differently for the level you require. One site we stopped on, which had a lot of statics, charged over £200 a year for a reported high speed service.

I wonder if the Club is in a quandary about the supply of WiFi on sites. Where it can it seems to be adding fibre connections to sites. How much this is costing we have no idea. As I have said before that without knowing what the uptake of site WiFi is amongst members it is difficult for any of us here to answer the last para in you post. I can't be alone in getting site surveys after I visit a Club site. In those surveys they ask a fair few questions. Did you use Club WiFi? If not why not? Did you use 4G? So either the Club are re-evaluating it's offer on WiFi or perhaps wondering whether it is worthwhile, but until they tell us we won't know.

David

I think there was an announcement by the club that they have now "contracted" BTs offshoot Openreach to upgrade sites with fibre optic lines, to address most of the problems that some members  seem to have with some sites WiFi  especially those in rural areas that still have to rely on copper phone cables, ,I have noted Open Reach vans at some  sites we have been on recently ,the last we saw them was at Sutton on Sea it seems were running a fibre optic supply from about half a mile away 

It must be costing mega amounts of money

Some friend's of ours who live in Norfolk were quoted £6000 each for the five houses in their lane to upgrade the supply into the lane they live