Marina WiFi

Boz

Boz

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This has probably been done before but.....

I know it's free, but I find the WiFi in North Fambridge YH practically unusable, continually dropping out and slow. Is it just me or are others experiencing the same in NFYH and other places?

I should add that I am berthed less than 50ft from a repeater aerial....
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Boz
 
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Boz said:
This has probably been done before but.....

I know it's free, but I find the WiFi in North Fambridge YH practically unusable, continually dropping out and slow. Is it just me or are others experiencing the same in NFYH and other places?

I should add that I am berthed less than 50ft from a repeater aerial....
Regards
Boz
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Bradwell is the same, they advertise as having wifi but it rarely works.... and if you are on F pontoon there is no wifi at all!!!

We've also found with a lot of marina's when visiting that "the wifi is down at the moment"!!

Ian and Sarah
 
Mostly I use my 3G dongle for my laptop as quite often the marina's system are unavailable to me - i.e. at Burnham Yacht Harbour the WiFi was down, and staff at North Fambridge forgot to give me an access code when I was down there for the ECF meal so I never got to experiance it beyond the log in screen :rolleyes:

The service at my home marina can be rather variable at times and somebody switched it off over Christmas :mad:
 
There is wifi here at Foxs and has been poor in the past but seems ok at the moment.
We do have an aerial on our mizzen and an access point and router to send the signal around the boat.
We are about 100m from the little wifi aerial on the harbourmasters office and get a significantly better signal through our kit than direct.
Using some kind of booster seems to help a lot of folks on here.
 
The spectrum wifi at Fambridge is virtually useless in my experience.occasionally I get a usable signal for long enough to check weather forecasts etc but most of the time I either cannot get a connection at all or it keeps dropping out

Its less hassle to use the 3g data on the phone or my 3 dongle. Most of the time I get a decent data connection over the mobile network
 
Jubilee week wifi

We had a week of Marina hoping the wifi we used. Burnham yacht harbour was reasonable, we had 2 different berths it was def better closer to the land but still useable 3/4 of the way along the pontoon.

Shotley was supurb on H, enough band width to watch moto GP with only a few stops. Filled a time due to weather stopping sailing. Managed a skype call as well.
 
Brigantia said:
The spectrum wifi at Fambridge is virtually useless in my experience.occasionally I get a usable signal for long enough to check weather forecasts etc but most of the time I either cannot get a connection at all or it keeps dropping out

Its less hassle to use the 3g data on the phone or my 3 dongle. Most of the time I get a decent data connection over the mobile network
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I'm glad it's not just me .... I wonder if any of the Marina's Staff actually read these threads?

I'm not sure I should have to purchase special equipment, like directional High Gain Aerials to use an advertised service, mind you Spectrum provide the service at a Hotel I use in Luton, once again that's free but is also pretty hit and miss:(

Maybe it's the providers we should be moaning about.
 
wingdiver said:
There is wifi here at Foxs and has been poor in the past but seems ok at the moment.
We do have an aerial on our mizzen and an access point and router to send the signal around the boat.
We are about 100m from the little wifi aerial on the harbourmasters office and get a significantly better signal through our kit than direct.
Using some kind of booster seems to help a lot of folks on here.
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we use a TP Link TL-WN722N
from amazon
 
Fox's wifi was occasionally switched off but the rest of the time it was good enough to watch BBC iPlayer on the pad. The ultimate test of marina wifi.
 
It's a bit much to expect the total bandwidth available at a marina offering free Wifi to be substantial, so quality will tend to vary with the number of users trying to get their data down the same channel. Also, marinas tend to be a bit out in the sticks, so, if they are sing ADSL, bandwidth will be limited by the length of copper from the marina to the exchange. This will particularly impact datspeeds from your device.

Where a marina charges for wifi, it seems reasonable to expect a good service, but you will still be limited by the forest of metal masts or even the well earthed sheet piling at low water unless you follow Colin Shead's exceellent advice (linked from Moody Sabre's post) and get your Wifi aerial soewhere high up.

Peter wright
Wild Thyme
 
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