UK Trains Take WiFi Route To Connectivity

Randy Sparks writes "The BBC is reporting that one of the UK's largest train operators, GNER, is to offer Wi-Fi net access on its trains. What's interesting is how this net connection will be achieved - by a combination of networks provided by multiple mobile phone connections or even digital TV Internet, provided from ground stations the train passes by. It'll cost UKP4.95 per hour for train goers, although First Class Travellers will get it free..."

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Oblig Jokes

[beacher]

Quake players and their rail guns...
Tunnelling
Rail driving?
Say, didn't you just hit a badger? There goes our proxy server!

Cool, Spammers now have rolling hide outs :)

[Wacky_Wookie]

Why not buy up a whole carriages worth of space and set up your office on a train going between say, Bristol and london, or Manchester? Sure beats sitting in an office all day. If you worked the shifts out correctly, your staff would have a choice between living in two citys (or any stop in between).

Of course that bring up the obvious joke:
In Soviet Russia, the office commutes to YOU!

I think the view from a moving train would be much nicer then a static office window anyday!

A whole new spectrum of excuses

[JosKarith]

"We're sorry this train is late, but there are the wrong type of interleaves on the pipe..."
(For the benefit of those who don't have the pleasure of living in the wettest place on earth British Railways used 'Wrong leaves on the track' as an excuse for late/cancelled trains for years...)