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Amtrak debuts Wi-Fi on Midwest corridor trains
Went from Penn Sta to Niagra Falls, Canada on the Maple Leaf with a Verizon device and the service was good considering you are in a steel tube. Drove from New Jersey to Kansas City along I-70. Most of the rest stops had free WiFi paid for by the taxpayers of each state. Is this not also socialistic?
I have been using 3G and 4G since 2006. Granted, I will admit those first few years were prone to device overheating and a few other issues which have been resolved via hardware and software upgrades and real world feedback. WiFi has been around about 15 years, more or less. Amtrak is running quite a bit backwards here. And the Amtrak foamers can’t blame cell phone service providers for this as 2007 came and went a few years ago. Perhaps now that every trucking company has all the bugs worked out of their 4G equipped trucks, which was a project started a few years ago, there are probably a few spare technicians available to tackle a train or two.
Meanwhile, why bother? I am sure anybody with a mobile device already had 4G service to the provider’s nearest tower when the device was purchased a few years ago. Or at least 3G service if the device is that old. That is, if the individual was willing to pay for the service. This is nothing more than a complete waste of time and taxpayer money to subsidize those recipients unwilling to pay for what they use.
At least Mr. Guse is consistent. Have used WIFI and G4 on Cascades and the San Joaquin. Meanwhile thevchuef question on the Coast Starlight’s coach class lounge cars is, “Where are all the outlets?” Hope the new service is better than all that.
now the overpaid airlines should offer free internet
I remember the old payphone ones in the Cafe Cars. I wonder if they got cellphone companies to put up towers along the Missouri River. I can’t even get regular service along the river from the City of Jefferson to Pacific
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn forgot to mention that now with WIFI aboard Amtrak, it will be “faster, better and more efficient” to write about Gooses idiotic comments, while riding a train in Illinois!!!
Just wonder why the new high speed route Chicago-St. Louis is not included in the wifi deal. Sure seems to be a lot of whiners commenting today!
I’d rather have trains that run on time and have toilets that don’t freeze up when the temperature drops a few degrees.
And for Mel & Mo, on a per passenger basis, Amtrak is far more heavily subsidized than the airlines or the public highways.
I’ll bet the airlines will ding it’s customers for Wi-Fi as well. There’s a mode of travel that Goosie should be pissed off at since the airline’s subsidies are far greater than Amtrak’s.
I hope it’s better than the ridiculously slow WiFi on the Northeast Corridor. I gave up trying to read the news on my Kindle it was taking so long to load text-based articles.
Oh,yes; lets skew the numbers, Robert McGuire. Any yuppie bean counter can do that.
Mr. Butler: I can’t imagine that it’s not. The wording of the article is confusing. It seems to say there’s a train from Quincy to Carbondale, which is hardly the case.
Having had Sprint cut out on me south of Springfield, and Verizon cut out west of Mendota, I hope one or another of the providers Amtrak uses covers these gaps.