The Caravan and Motorhome Club are currently upgrading the wi-fi offer on their sites to provide a 'basic' service for email etc and a premium one on for streaming films etc. All good.
What's less clear, unless you dig down on their website, is that at least on some sites the previous service, OK but could be slow/patchy is withdrawn long before the new version is available. While waiting there will be a 'hot spot' around reception but nothing at all at the pitch.
We found out about this at the New Forest Centenary site over the Coronation weekend where even the hotspot wasn't there. Messages on noticeboards said this had been the case since March. I asked the Manager who waved his hands in the air and blamed BT!!
We'd normally use our phone's hotspots as a back up. In this case though the site's in an area where mobile is very poor, at least on EE and 3 for which we have SIMS.
I understand others have some sort of router that uses a SIM to provide wifi and which has better reception than a phone including the possibility of an external antenna.
A quick look suggests a ball park of around £75 and perhaps as much again for the antenna but quite a few links on Amazon etc seem to be for wired domestic wifi kit rather than using a mobile network.
Can anyone provide any useful technical info as to what I should be looking for and/or experience with kit of their own.
TIA
Simon
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