Paying for WiFi

Buxton is another site where it is difficult to get a 4G signal unless you sit on the seat opposite reception! I have been surprised this year how we have hardly struggled to get a 4G signal so things do seem to be improving. I appreciate that servicing costs on a mobile phone will be more expensive than just buying the annual WiFi access but, of course, we all use our phones for more than just being on campsites. I pay about £11 a month for 20GB of data, any unused rolls over. In truth I could probably go for a cheaper package by reducing the data allowance but I don't see £11 a month particularly expensive? Margaret pays under £10 but less data and she has the advantage that we are are on different networks so between us can usually manage. I object to paying the excessive short term fees to buy Club WiFi for a few days or a week.

David

 

Never stayed on the Clumber Site Brue, but it’s close to home so we do visit the Estate quite often. There are places in Clumber Park you can get a signal. 
We visit Dartmoor frequently, the cottage we usually use has no phone coverage whatsoever, you have to drive out and climb a hill. But the owners have got superb wifi, very fast and reliable. Different of course, you haven’t got 100+ outfits all trying to stream Netflix🤣

CL we used on Rhins of Galloway had no wifi, it’s one of those almost unconnected rural areas, but thankfully we had enough of a phone signal to tether iPads for everything but streaming.

Nearly everywhere at Clumber Park not just this clubs site is  a nil signal for phones and WiFi,, whether the major refurb on the club site will include an upgrade to the WiFi we may find out when it reopens later this  year,

The free? WiFi that the ccc include in their prices was all but useless when we stayed at thee St Neots site as the site managers advised "it is free?"

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The national Trust advises that signals are intermittent in Clumber Park eg if meeeting up with friends choose a meeting point rather than relying on phones.

If you wander out of the site entrance and a couple of hundred meters up lime tree avenue towards the A614 you can get very good signals on both O2 and EE. However, as far as I know the site itself is a dead zone for all networks. In the area of the facilities around the lake, recently the signal has improved, where as once you were not able to get one, now you almost always can, on O2 and EE at least. There have also been good signals for some time at the bottom end of the lake.