WiFi on MBTA Commuter Rail

By hrose on Wed, 01/23/2008 - 7:13am

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

By TR on Wed, 01/23/2008 - 8:59am.

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

By sabourinj on Wed, 01/23/2008 - 3:59pm.

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

By Anonymous on Fri, 01/25/2008 - 2:28am.

farm3.static.flickr.com/...0fa5dbb5d8.jpg?v=0

that is all....

Coming soon on the Worc. line too...

By Jenn on Sun, 01/27/2008 - 6:32pm.

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

By Anonymous on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 12:55pm.

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.