WiFi on MBTA Commuter Rail
By hrose - Wed, 01/23/2008 - 8:13am.
I've had two colleagues report the availability of WiFi on MBTA Commuter Rail trains this week, one on the Greenbush line, one on the Providence line. It seems legitimate enough, has a splash screen & requires one to agree to terms & conditions.
Has anyone else seen this? It's definitely not station-based.
The technology seems to be based on Parvus RiderNet.
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I've seen it on the
I've seen it on the Providence line this week... sporadically. This morning I had great speeds up to about Ruggles, where it dropped out completely. Either there's no connection through there or the wifi router failed to grab a good ip address after dropping out.
Screen Shot
If anyone sees this could they take a screen shot? (On a PC press the "PrtSc" or "Print Screen" button on your keyboard... this copies the screen image to your clipboard and you can paste into MSPaint or an email or something...
Thanks :)
Screen capture
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that is all....
Coming soon on the Worc. line too...
at boston.com today:
MBTA to make WiFi services available on commuter rail line
I wonder if they will actually mark the car that has the wireless, or if there will be random commuters with open laptops running up and down the train ;-) (is that WarRiding?).
There is Wi-fi also on the
There is Wi-fi also on the Franklin/forge park line as well. No splash screen, I didn't have to agree to any terms of service. Though slow, it did work all the way from Back Bay to Forge Park.