Wifi charges

that doesn't make sense at all, 'can I have a mars bar please?' 'Yes of course 80p please' 'can I have it?' 'no there isn't any'

What shops would do that? funny shops you go to?

The club has told you in advance that some sites do not have wifi and some have good/poor service, your choice to buy it based on that. Do your homework before buying, if you didn't then it's your own fault.

caveat emptor

 

It's called an analogy Corners, you pay for something that doesn't exist or hardly exists on sites that you might or might not be visiting. So when the OP suggests it should be free, should we all pay the hidden charges even if we can't or won't be using them?

If it was "free?"as in the majority of "free"WiFi, price hidden in other things you buy,    then there would soon be some one posting that as the included wifi is poor,    there should be a reduction in pitch fees 

Something no one seems to be considering is that every CMC site has a broadband connection for it's office, which presumably has it's computer connected via Wi-fi, therefore, the Wi-fi exists whether members are paying for it or not. I have a BT Wi-fi connection at home which provides a hotspot for any other BT Internet user to tap into if they are in range free of charge, in a similar way, why can't members be able to tap into the sites 'hotspot'? By charging a fee for using Wi-fi, the members are actually subsidising the site offices installations rather than the other way round. We have reached a stage where booking on-line everything from theatre tickets to holidays is the preferred method of dealing with customers, consequently the age of free Wi-fi is upon us, even Premier Inn now provides it. Private sites provide it, lots of Britstops provide it and the vast majority of European hotels provide it. It seems that CMC and C&CC are still hanging on to the good old British tradition of squeezing as much out of tourists as it can.

 

It’s not 'free', it’s simply not charged for separately.....🙄

Hot spots are starting to appear on sites where site wide Wi-fi is not available but the site wide Wi-fi is a very different kettle of fish to the use of broadband as we know it at home and most people want to use the internet in their vans rather than within a few feet of the office.

I think I’m right in saying that the site office broadband connection is a completely separate system from the Wi-fi installed and run by Air Angel. It’s not a case of using a single router and away we go but banks of equipment exist to run the Wi-fi. Subsidise the site office broadband - I don’t think so!

Anyway, I’ll continue using my mobi signal as it’s far more reliable.

 

+1

Also if everybody tapped into the office wifi, wouldn't that slow the office broadband? 

Just returned from Grantown on Spey caravan site - a CL site. Wifi was awesome and included in the price, as many devices as you want - high speed always on.

Obviously a big pipe coming in but the key thing was boosters all around the park. From our pitch I could see 6 - yes six covering about 25 vans!!!

This setup is not dissimilar to the CMC site at Kendal.

So technology works and question is CMC commitment to installing it across all the sites.

Surely not a CL site if 25 vans? 

It’s an AS and they charged separately for Wi-fi when I was there a few years back. Presumably it’s now included in the fees. Nice site but pricey and big.

PS. I think when I went there the Wi-fi was included in the price of the super-dooper pitches.

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