Really basic wifi question

[BooBooKing]

We are just back from a tour of Scotland. No issues with wifi using just our phones anywhere until we stopover at Clumber park CMHC on the way home-absolutely nothing there. We have been pondering whether to splash out on something from Motorhome wifi or similar, but wonder if it is reliable in the UK where there is currently little or no signal-so, has anybody been to Clumber Park site and actually had decent signal using your motorhome wifi? If so, what do you have please.

 

[Langtoftlad]

Clumber Park is renowned for having zero signal regardless of network.

 

[Vanman]

Before I book anywhere I always look on the OFCOM mobile data availability website. Looks like using a 3 sim would be about your only (slim) chance there.

 

[herald_400rl]

A router with an external antenna can be night and day, but if signal just doesn't exist, it can't fabricate it from nowhere.

 

[kev54]

We are just back from a tour of Scotland. No issues with wifi using just our phones anywhere until we stopover at Clumber park CMHC on the way home-absolutely nothing there. We have been pondering whether to splash out on something from Motorhome wifi or similar, but wonder if it is reliable in the UK where there is currently little or no signal-so, has anybody been to Clumber Park site and actually had decent signal using your motorhome wifi? If so, what do you have please.

What they said. Clumber Park is too far from any mast!

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[VXman]

We have been using our phones as hotspots for 4 years - UK and Europe. Rarely have had an issue with reception and do all our TV watching online. I just have some stuff downloaded in case we do stay somewhere that doesn't have signal.....or a good book.

 

[NR]

Starlink only @ Clumber, it’s a deep black hole for mobile signals.

 

[BooBooKing]

Interesting. Thanks all.

 

[Jev88]

Try a second hand Huawei Mifi with an alternative simm card to your phone for minimal commitment and cost and see if it works better than your phone's as you travel.

 

[funflair]

Before I book anywhere I always look on the OFCOM mobile data availability website. Looks like using a 3 sim would be about your only (slim) chance there.

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That's what I thought but being on three and having been there before I was sceptical and yes I was right to be, absolutely Zero but limited service at the cafe about a mile away.

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[Adeydub]

We have been using our phones as hotspots for 4 years - UK and Europe. Rarely have had an issue with reception and do all our TV watching online. I just have some stuff downloaded in case we do stay somewhere that doesn't have signal.....or a good book.

Exactly what we do, I love the sites with no signal - radio and a good book

 

[Lee bay]

Exactly what we do, I love the sites with no signal - radio and a good book

same here

 

[Southend]

We have used Clumber Park a couple of times as a stopover.
We have have picked up a weak signal sufficient for social media and internet telephone both times.
We use a Netgear router and Poynting MIMO with an EE SIM. Hadn't realised we were so lucky.

 

[Coolcats]

We are just back from a tour of Scotland. No issues with wifi using just our phones anywhere until we stopover at Clumber park CMHC on the way home-absolutely nothing there. We have been pondering whether to splash out on something from Motorhome wifi or similar, but wonder if it is reliable in the UK where there is currently little or no signal-so, has anybody been to Clumber Park site and actually had decent signal using your motorhome wifi? If so, what do you have please.

Take some CD’s for the not spots

 

[Hettie's Crew]

Having a decent roof aerial through a router makes a significant difference in poor signal areas. Where we store our motorhome there is no signal on our phones at all but we can get connection through the aerial/router.
(Panorama aerial/Teltonika router)

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[Captain Birdseye]

We are just back from a tour of Scotland. No issues with wifi using just our phones anywhere until we stopover at Clumber park CMHC on the way home-absolutely nothing there. We have been pondering whether to splash out on something from Motorhome wifi or similar, but wonder if it is reliable in the UK where there is currently little or no signal-so, has anybody been to Clumber Park site and actually had decent signal using your motorhome wifi? If so, what do you have please.

We had to pay for theire (pathetically under specified) wifi, so we logged a laptop into it then shared it to a small router. At least then we had both laptops on line, both phones, and in case of updates needed, our TomTom camper/caravan sat nav.

 

[Pausim]

“Really basic wifi question” I am feeling a bit pedantic this morning but I think we are mostly discussing mobile signals and mobile data rather than wifi. As mentioned by Captain Birdseye CAMC do provide wifi (pathetic), what is missing is a mobile signal.

 

[h8ten]

A sim to look at is from Honest, they are multi-network and will connect to the one with the best reception.

 

[Captain Birdseye]

“Really basic wifi question” I am feeling a bit pedantic this morning but I think we are mostly discussing mobile signals and mobile data rather than wifi. As mentioned by Captain Birdseye CAMC do provide wifi (pathetic), what is missing is a mobile signal.

Most phones will do WiFi calling

 

[abspag]

We have been using our phones as hotspots for 4 years - UK and Europe. Rarely have had an issue with reception and do all our TV watching online. I just have some stuff downloaded in case we do stay somewhere that doesn't have signal.....or a good book.

Exactly what we do x

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[Pausim]

Most phones will do WiFi calling

Yes, we use wifi calling all the time at home because we have no mobile signal.

 

[starquake]

A sim to look at is from Honest, they are multi-network and will connect to the one with the best reception.

The highest signal is not always the fastest service. CAMC Clubfest this weekend strongest signal was a band 20 Three (and EE) signal on site, which was also only about 20Kbit/sec throughput. You had to actually block this to get usable signal on a 5g service on Three at least from a further away cell tower.

I'm loathe to reccomend multi-network sims for this reason as the strongest signal can be a poorly performing high signal but low width signal.

 

[MoHoSam]

We use a 5g Motorhome WiFi unit with an external aerial on the roof, and so far, over the past year covering 10k miles in the UK and Europe (mainly France and Spain) we have never been without a mobile signal for TV, web surfing and telephoning (using WhatsApp) purposes. We use an unlimited data SIM card from '3' (unlimited in UK and abroad). No doubt we will eventually end up in a place without a suitable signal, but it hasn't happened yet. We have had no regrets not fitting a satellite dish on our current moho.

 

[Jewellbags]

We have been using our phones as hotspots for 4 years - UK and Europe. Rarely have had an issue with reception and do all our TV watching online. I just have some stuff downloaded in case we do stay somewhere that doesn't have signal.....or a good book.

Same here and have never failed to watch streaming TV (a few occasions with buffering )

 

[fishplug]

...the 'standard' SIM from Honest works on the Three network.

To get the 'strongest signal' SIM you need what they call their Smart SIM which requires you to enter data before you get to see the pricing.

There are other vendors of this sort of thing (I used to work for one of them!) and in my experience they're never especially cheap when it comes to calls / data and that gets exponentially worse when you go international...

Good for emergency teams maybe such as mountain rescue groups but not something I would want to make regular use of personally.

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[pandas]

We use a 5g Motorhome WiFi unit with an external aerial on the roof, and so far, over the past year covering 10k miles in the UK and Europe (mainly France and Spain) we have never been without a mobile signal for TV, web surfing and telephoning (using WhatsApp) purposes. We use an unlimited data SIM card from '3' (unlimited in UK and abroad). No doubt we will eventually end up in a place without a suitable signal, but it hasn't happened yet. We have had no regrets not fitting a satellite dish on our current moho.

We have had the same system installed and haven’t been pleased at all.
However it is most probably down to user error and to be fair waiting on motorhome wifi to get back to me to hopefully sort it out. This is in the 3 weeks so far in Spain where switching off the WiFi actually helps.

 

[Ducatian]

We have used Clumber Park a couple of times as a stopover.
We have have picked up a weak signal sufficient for social media and internet telephone both times.
We use a Netgear router and Poynting MIMO with an EE SIM. Hadn't realised we were so lucky.

In my view its all down to the aerial. What shows a no signal on a phone or internal router aerial, could show as a valid signal with an external rooftop aerial (we have a Panorama Great White). But then if we're in a dead spot, we get out the games.

 

[pandas]

Actually assuming the end user should know all about it when don’t really hacks me off.
Just bought a new system for WiFi and there were several important points I would have liked to know as part of a duty of care hand over.
Okay I am a dork with these things - but all I really want is to switch the bloody thing on and it’s up and running. When I buy a car I don’t need to know how the engine works - put the key in the ignition and off you go.

Now told I might have been better to have purchased a local sim in Spain, don’t think that came up before, that my iPhone may have more status than my router in bandwidth and reception.
Back to this ‘artisan’ approach by most in the motorhome industry.
Make it simple I don’t want the hassle.

 

[RM_Marine]

We have lived in Ollerton, across from Clumber for over 35yrs

The phone signal in the village has been terrible on all networks for decades

 

[Vanman]

Actually assuming the end user should know all about it when don’t really hacks me off.
Just bought a new system for WiFi and there were several important points I would have liked to know as part of a duty of care hand over.
Okay I am a dork with these things - but all I really want is to switch the bloody thing on and it’s up and running. When I buy a car I don’t need to know how the engine works - put the key in the ignition and off you go.

Now told I might have been better to have purchased a local sim in Spain, don’t think that came up before, that my iPhone may have more status than my router in bandwidth and reception.
Back to this ‘artisan’ approach by most in the motorhome industry.
Make it simple I don’t want the hassle.

You might want to avoid Hybrid cars with Auto boxes. There are probably Nuclear submarines with a shorter pre-start checklist ...