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Quote: Originally posted by SGThomas on 01/9/2018

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We are posting this from a free wifi site on a municipal that only charges €12 for enormous pitches, good sanitaires and friendly owners.

The large chains, like Aqualoisir,look upon wifi as a source of revenue not a service.

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Quote: Originally posted by JoannaLesley on 01/9/2018

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Quote: Originally posted by SGThomas on 01/9/2018

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We are posting this from a free wifi site on a municipal that only charges €12 for enormous pitches, good sanitaires and friendly owners.

The large chains, like Aqualoisir,look upon wifi as a source of revenue not a service.

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This sounds our kind of site, Stuart. We like municipals as they are often within walking distance of shops and bars. Where are you this time?

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Quote: Originally posted by SGThomas on 01/9/2018

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Quote: Originally posted by JoannaLesley on 01/9/2018

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Quote: Originally posted by SGThomas on 01/9/2018

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We are posting this from a free wifi site on a municipal that only charges €12 for enormous pitches, good sanitaires and friendly owners.

The large chains, like Aqualoisir,look upon wifi as a source of revenue not a service.

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This sounds our kind of site, Stuart. We like municipals as they are often within walking distance of shops and bars. Where are you this time?

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At Abrest, just by Vichy.

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Quote: Originally posted by jasie on 02/9/2018

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Being a bit of a IT geek I like to take a close look at any wifi I connect to.....In the last few weeks I have managed to gain access to many a sites free wifi and actually gain access to adjust their settings if I so wished.   Bad passwords make it so easy sometimes!

Just take care as to what you do on free wifi....to give you an example I had issue with connecting my caravan booster (its a bit more hi-tec than the name suggests) to one sites wifi, so I accessed their settings and found they were using an old protocol...no one uses this as it's not secure, so I admittedly did a few tweaks of their system without their knowledge to make it safe.   It was actually possible for me to see every device connected across the site, and if I really wanted to I could very easily see what every camper was viewing. All because they hadn't run any basic system updates on their wifi masts.

I went to two other sites that had least run updates and were secure, but again I could still see all my neighbours on the site that had a connection.

Like I say, just be careful what websites sites you view.

Post last edited on 02/09/2018 09:53:49

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Quote: Originally posted by Keyboard warrior on 03/9/2018

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Campsites may still be under contract to their supplier so that might be a reason for charging.If they charge,you will usually be given an access code therefore they have some traceability if you are up to no good on the web as all internet service providers have to log all web site visits by law.

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