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I visit campsites for a campsite guide visited over 80 last years and around 50 this year and I found several sites that had free wifi.
Unfortunately I did not keep records of the cost of wifi on each site.
One fairly common problem I came across with wifi is that though many sites advertised wifi I was always informed that unfortunately it was not working at the moment". Violent storms are great destroyers of wifi setups.
I found that I could not rely on being able to use wifi.
I also found that computer dongles, using mobile networks, were also not very reliable due to the isolated position of many campsites.
______________________________________________________________ Old but still game
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It seems that there are quite a large number of sites offering `Free` WI FI
it may be that when each of us books in to a site in the UK we mention the amount of FREE WI FI`s available and see if we can get some of these rip off merchants to change there methods of digging into our pocket at every opportunity.
Please keep your sites coming, its still not attracted any UK site owners yet, would love to hear their comments and excuses for the exorbitant charges been made by some!
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The point is that people are out to make money and will try every possible way to achieve this. If they can get people to pay quite high sums for a service then they would be suckers not to charge this amount.
The idea that prices should be fair seems odd to me. For a start to whom should they be fair, the supplier or the recipient? What forms the basis on which we judge them to be fair?
When we provide a service for others, including our paid work, do we all sit there and say "am I providing a fair service for this person/company" or do we try to maximise the amount of money we can get? I was always out to get the best reward possible.
Why should we expect others to be more altruistic?
A good example is a very common complaint - the price of Tesco fuel. Hundreds of thousands buy Tesco fuel every year so the price they charge can't be too far out can it?
No one is forcing anyone else to shop at Tesco so if you don't like their methods/prices then just go elsewhere.
I have no brand loyalty, I look around and try to get the best buy at acceptable quality
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I've stayed at camping Roquettas a few times and the WiFi is pretty good, it is their own system and was fitted when the long termers requested it. It is cheap, compared to some of the Spanish sites who use Delfynet or other big providers, which is expensive and often unreliable. The site I'm on now uses an Ethernet cable system is 25euros a month and traffic limited to 3gb a month. I for one think it is overpriced and fortunately have a USB booster and can pick up an open channel from outside the site
Pete
Further to this some sites do have an open channel usually near reception or the camp bar and sometimes both. If you plan to use WiFi it can be a good idea to have a wander around with a WiFi detector or your lap top to check for open channels and then try to get a pitch as near as possible and in line of site.
A USB booster can be bought for around 40euros and can soon pay for itself.
What is a USB booster, how much where from and does it really work ????
______________________________________________________________ John
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