Ah , train travel : long uninterruptedperiods to rest and oeuvre , rattling sentiment of the brilliant countryside and … the world ’s worst Wi - Fi . But fortunately Amtrak wants tochange the latter .
The railroad track society has announced that it ’s hoping to chuck its patchy 10Mbps connecter , which is shared by however many passengers endeavor to use it , with a permanent trackside Wi - Fi web deliver at least 25Mbps . Currently Amtrak does n’t allow streaming music or video , or even downloading large files , and the boosts should let it to lift some of those restrictions .
The snag ? At first it ’s only planning a proof - of - concept test between Boston and Washington , DC . If that operate to plan , it will undertake to roll out the technology across the rest of its meshing — but yield that it will require construction of a skinny - track WiFi mesh along the length of each and every route , that might take a while . [ Amtrak ]
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