Announcement WiFi on Club Sites

Having arrived at Meathop Fell CAMC site (Sept 2023) I had the opportunity to use the club’s FREE wi-if for the first time and was horrified to find I had the luxury of FREE wi-if for 1 hour!!

On the first line of my reply I dated Sept 2023 because I could not believe in 2023 any club that accepts membership fee’s advertise FREE wi-if but limit it to 1 hour ….. CAMC should be ashamed of themselves, this is disgraceful and a total insult to its members.

For comparison, McDonalds restaurants have provided free wi-if since 2004 and Starbucks since 2010 so free wi-fi is not a luxury it should be a given especially to its members.

CAMC management need to visit private operated sites to see how they treat paying customers and compare what is offered compared to the CAMC offer …… this FREE wi-if is another slap in the face to fee paying members and having the opportunity to pay for longer is another insult in 2023.

CAMC - you should be ashamed… this is no way to run a “club”.

It is only limited to an hour in that you are logged out after that time. You can log back in as many times as you like. It seems fairly sensible to me as it stops the system getting cluttered with unused logins which may still use bandwidth for housekeeping purposes.

The premium (paid for) service does not log out after an hour and provides significantly more bandwidth. Enough to allow steaming if required. My only complaint is the price, which seems somewhat high for a members club. Although not significantly different to some private sites. They are certainly not all “free”.

At the end of an hour I get a pop-up which enables re-connection straight away.

how are we all getting on with the wonderful new premium Wi-Fi service? We paid the £5 and are currently on Knaresborough on a fairly full site. We’re trying to watch Coronation Street, not a huge ask, but it’s buffering and the picture is fuzzy on the TV.

it frustrates me that in this day and age, we are still struggling to get an acceptable Internet connection, especially when we’re close to a town! 

I think CAMC and BT can do better.  I won’t be paying anymore money just yet!!

Does anyone know the state of play on progress rolling out the new basic system ? 

The "wifi" page seems to have contradictions.

Eg: The Firs is listed as having Premium Service to the pitch but is also listed as awaiting upgrade.

I recently used the 'free' one hour service and it was fine...I logged back in after being logged out and picked up where I left off. I didn't try streaming buy every other sort of browsing and email collection was fine.

IMHO there's no need at all (perhaps without trying streaming first) to use the 
Premium service at whatever price.

Other than clicking back in, it was an endless, robust system...the club has missed a trick here and after trying the free service I don't see folk paying for something more.

When I tried the free system YT it was limited to a maximum of 1 Mbs and that was on a half empty site. Although it was good enough for general browsing and even street view, if you waited a few seconds for the image to sharpen, there was no way it would support streaming. 

I think the main target of the premium service are those that want to use it for online films and TV and don’t have sufficient data to support this. We have a  fairly large allowance but at around 1 Gb an hour, it would soon be used up if I used it for more than the odd Grand Prix, for which it is sufficient. I can’t see us making general use of it, but for those on there annual holidays I doubt the cost would be a factor.

I've no idea of the speed of the service, not really interested....what I was interested in was how well it worked, which was surprisingly well. I use street view a lot but didn't notice any real issue with the service.

id recommend trying it first before diving in to pay.

...the club has missed a trick here and after trying the free service I don't see folk paying for something more

Sorry but are you advocating that the club should charge or should have charged for this basic service?

How many posts in the past have there been about having to pay for wifi when other providers offer it for 'free' must run into quite high double figures?  In fact I recall it's often something you yourself highlight (free wifi) on other non club sites, apologies if I recall incorrectly

Surely now the wifi is 'free' at least at the basic level for those on club sites so I see that as a positive especially as you describe such a good service.

When I'm regularly getting speeds like this using a TP Link router and EE sim card which costs me £50 for 120Gb which lasts about a year (away at least 1 week every month) - browsing / emails and some TV streaming - I shan't be bothering with the Club's offering. Plus I know my connection is much more secure.