In order to
improve and update our Wi-Fi facilities for members, we have just upgraded our
Red Button Wi-Fi Hotspot Service. The new service offers features which
we feel will bring benefit to members of the Club and the Gym. The
intention is that members will be able to work with their email and perform
some basic browsing / Whatsapp / BBM type / Wind Guru / UGrib weather forecasting
and similar communications while enjoying a coffee or drink at the bar.
We are not intending that users perform huge downloads (eg. video files) as
this is something which should be done and paid for at home, although there is
a facility to enable this if you are prepared to pay the top-up fees. See
below for further explanations.
The details
of this offering are as follows:
- The Telkom link is now running at 1MB, a faster speed than the previous 384kB
- Each user can log on for free to the Wi-Fi service
- Each user is allocated up to 50Mbytes free Internet usage per day
- For users who want to use more than 50Mbytes, they can top up at a rate of 15c/Mbyte (that’s R150/Gbyte)
- Any top-up is purchased on-line, using your credit card
- Note that the top-up rate is now 15c/MByte, a discount from the previous 25c/MByte
Just a
note for awareness sake - the Telkom lines in Hout Bay are currently suffering
from high contention ratios. In simple terms, this means that the Telkom
link to the Internet is shared by many other users in Hout Bay – and although
we now have a 1MB link to Telkom, the speed of the service may be affected at
different times of the day, dependent on how many other Hout Bay users are
using the Internet. So while our Hout Bay Yacht Club link has a perfectly
adequate speed for its intended use, its performance might be degraded from
time to time due to capacity challenges at Telkom.
We would
appreciate your feedback on your experience of the service so please feel free
to drop comments in the suggestion box or send an email to Anne at the office (hbyc@iafrica.com). We will continue to
monitor the performance of the service over the coming months to review what
usage it receives and confirm the suitability of the service.
