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Re: VIA Rail improves on board Wi-Fi said by resa1983:I took the train from Toronto to Ottawa, and back again....
Wifi sucked badly - it kept dropping out constantly. Could barely chat on msn for 5 mins without dropping.
That's why you have a 6gb data plan on your phone and tether!
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resa1983
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| said by elwoodblues:said by resa1983:I took the train from Toronto to Ottawa, and back again....
Wifi sucked badly - it kept dropping out constantly. Could barely chat on msn for 5 mins without dropping.
That's why you have a 6gb data plan on your phone and tether! That would generally require a cellphone.... :P |
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said by jfmezei:I suspect that the "3 networks" may have more to do with increasing capacity than having better coverage. Easier said than done thanks to the Doppler effect... while fixed point-to-point links have been demonstrated at Gbps speeds, fixed-to-high-velocity-mobile links are a whole other story with current standards maxing out at 40Mbps or so. |
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said by resa1983:I took the train from Toronto to Ottawa, and back again....
Playing golf with certain key ottawa people, are we ???? 
Wifi sucked badly - it kept dropping out constantly. Could barely chat on msn for 5 mins without dropping.
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elwoodbluesElwood BluesPremium
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said by resa1983:said by elwoodblues:said by resa1983:I took the train from Toronto to Ottawa, and back again....
Wifi sucked badly - it kept dropping out constantly. Could barely chat on msn for 5 mins without dropping.
That's why you have a 6gb data plan on your phone and tether! That would generally require a cellphone.... :P That would indeed....
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No, I didn't. Honest... I ran out of gas. I... I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake....... |
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elwoodbluesElwood BluesPremium
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said by InvalidError:said by jfmezei:I suspect that the "3 networks" may have more to do with increasing capacity than having better coverage. Easier said than done thanks to the Doppler effect... while fixed point-to-point links have been demonstrated at Gbps speeds, fixed-to-high-velocity-mobile links are a whole other story with current standards maxing out at 40Mbps or so. 40mb is not bad, unless you are Angelo and downloading Linux Distro's on the train.
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No, I didn't. Honest... I ran out of gas. I... I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake....... |
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| said by elwoodblues:40mb is not bad, unless you are Angelo and downloading Linux Distro's on the train. That's 40Mbps divided between the 200+ passengers on the train and anyone else who may be operating other mobile devices within that cell that may be attached either directly or through WiFi bridge... and that is assuming the cell has enough spectrum to actually run that fast, which it probably doesn't either.
So 40Mbps isn't much... imagine what would happen if Rogers decided to go back to single-QAM nodes. |
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