Pathetic Club Wi Fi

According to latest newsletter. Trout beck now has wi fi.   Incorrect!!! 

I am at Burford at the moment which is a Gold site with speeds of up to 100mbps according to the club. In reality the service is terrible with extremely slow speeds for the most basic of tasks. When I talked to the help desk they said that the 100mbps is the speed to the site and that if you were lucky you would get 4 mbps, in fact I find I’m lucky to get 2. I think the description of site wifi which is given needs to reflect the reality on the sites themselves. When you compare this with the 600 mbps I get at home it makes you think the club has chosen the wrong supplier for it’s site’s. The only reason I am not tethering my devices is that the phone signal is bad here as well.

Open Reach were doing something to improve the web supplying Burrs last week .... no idea what exactly, but it involved lots of fibre cables

I totally agree that the wording on the CC internet information could be made a lot clearer. However, I think expecting speeds of 100 mbps for £30 a year unrealistic. I suspect your 600 mbps package somewhat more expensive. I’ve not used the paid service for a couple of years, but when we did I recorded up to 14 mbps on a gold site when everyone was out. When they returned for the evening that dropped to 2 mbps.

Not sure if this is good or bad, but Ive currently got 16 mb/s over 4g and its fine for streaming Netflix/Amazon or downloading to Sky....

and even for using CT, the biggest test it'll ever face...

I managed to watch YouTube using the other club's 'free' (inverted commas for the benefit of JVB) Wi-Fi the week before last .... admittedly it could be hit & miss through the day.

The big mistake the club made ,was when they said the wifi service was being up graded with a tie up with BT ,and saying that now streaming would be possible ,instead of leaving it as just an email and websearch only ,and as you say when the site wifi is not being used much it is fine ,but when then evetyone? starts to use it it cannot now cope as it is a whole "village" going on line that could be over 200 units ,

And do i understand that there is now equipment ,available that can also boost  the signal to a unit over and above what is expected ?

I don't know how long the Club have had site WiFi but I imagine it must go back to at least 2008 as I had a recall having a problem with it at Sandringham and the Club set me a site night voucher! The point is the expectations for WiFi back then was materially different to what it is now. With the fairly recent advent of widespread TV on demand, peoples expectations of what WiFi have changed. Along with higher speed data on phones the Club's WiFi speeds will seem archaic to many. I am not sure what the answer is, the Club may have to think about 1000mpbs connections on site? 

David

Can that be done on most sites that are not very near any fibre cables being very rural   ,as stated else where ?,it is as i understand 100mpbs is at the entry point of the site,  not  when it could be a 200plus "village" of LVs wanting to log  on

I have watched youtube on CMC sites. Found C&CC wifi poor