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(old news - 12:54PM Sunday Sep 21 2008)
tags: coverage · business · wireless · municipal
People who commute to and from work in Utah are finding it increasingly easy to get work done during the commute because of emerging and improved wireless connections on the state’s commuter buses and trains. The FrontRunner Commuter Rail that runs between Ogden and Salt Lake City now has fiber optic cables running under the tracks which let users connect to the Internet at speeds of approximately 5 Mbps. The commuter buses in the same area also offer Wi-Fi connections although you have to use a broadband card to connect and speeds aren’t quite so fast. There are additional plans in the works in the area including a broadband system similar to that of the FrontRunner system which is set to be complete in the Utah Valley by 2012.

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seanh46

join:2003-09-15
Tooele, UT

utah commuters

just glad to see us Utahn's are getting some positive press on the front page of DSLR!
Oedipus

join:2005-05-09
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Re: utah commuters

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just glad to see us Utahn's are getting some positive press on the front page of DSLR!
Have they ever gotten negative press on the front page of DSLR?

JoyOfSpeed

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Re: utah commuters

I haven't participated in any of the threads about CP80 on here, but I imagine they may have gotten pretty heated.

SlickEnW
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join:2003-01-21
Seattle, WA
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A bit like that in Wa too

We have a bit of option in the Seattle/Tacoma/Everett reigion here in Seattle although the coverage is shoddy at best. I think on the train I can get a maximum of 13 Kb/sec over wifi sitting on only one car of the train (out of 6 or 7) and it drops out at 2 cities on the 7 stop ride from/to seattle/tacoma. This is with maybe 3 or 4 other users on the same upper deck as me.

Maybe 5 or 6 buses have wifi activites, none of which i've been on.

It's all good though. I don't get on the train to use the internet. Its good to do work for the little bit of time I can , but hopefully this signal some additional more sophistocated roll outs in the future. Its a huge life saver to not have to travel on i-5 for my entire trip and as more people hop on, less gas consumption.

FastiBook

join:2003-01-08
Newtown, PA

Great..

Too bad it's still a really weird place to live. :P

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rahvin112

join:2002-05-24
Sandy, UT

Re: Great..

It's not any weirder than any southern bible belt state, in fact I would say it's less weird than bible belt states. Utah is one of the most beautiful states in the union. The state has more federal land as a percentage than any other state in the union. Nearly 2/3rds of the state is national park, BLM or other federal lands. It also probably has the single largest declared wilderness zone (no mechanized vehicles allowed, can only travel by Foot and Horse) in the 48 in the Uinta National Forest.
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